Ducktails

"Dolphins..." seconded.

I missed this guy a few weeks back, too bad (saw Shoji Hano and Dean Roberts instead, which was worth it).

Man what has Dean Roberts been doin?

A few weeks ago he played a really good set with a drummer (not sure who) here in Auckland. Slow quiet improv, about what I expected his songless stuff would sound like (I'd only ever heard Be Mine Tonight). I think he's living in New Zealand again. No clue, aside from that.

Real Estate wouldn't sound out of place entertaining the evening beach crowd at the Myrtle Beach Holiday Inn. And I mean that as a compliment.

Really liking the two Real Estate 7"s so far, particularly "Suburban Beverage". Need to get ahold of some Ducktails stuff.

the real estate album is really nice.

Is it out? Leaked?

yeah, i'm talking about the s/t on woodsist, but half the songs are the same as some earlier "tour cd" i had downloaded ... not even rerecorded. i'm not complaining.

http://www.exclaim.ca/images/up-realestateLG.jpg

Thanks, I'll have to get ahold of that one.

plz leo that n/a thx

Shit is hard to google.

i know!

search on here:

http://www.supersuperdb.com/

Thanks, didn't know about that site.

these guys are playing chicago tomorrow, I am pondering going but probably won't because I am lazy.

Yeah I thought about going to that, but with all the Pitchfork fawning over Girls, I'm a little wary of the annoying crowd this might draw.

Saw Real Estate @ The Funhouse (Seattle) tonight. Really nice, and a good deal more propulsive/energetic than I expected. Drummer & bassist hammer the tunes surprisingly hard. Reminded me of a bunch of different stuff: surf music, the "rhyming guitars" of Pell Mell & Love Tractor, a sort of John Frusciante version of late Pavement (plus they had Malkmus clothes), even Dire Straits. Only knew "Fake Blues" and "Pool Swimmers" going in, off a Woodsist 45 I picked up a while back, but I liked just about everything they played. Bought a copy of the new LP off them, which I'm listening to now. It's excellent, though much more relaxed & dreamy than the live show.

Band afterwards was Pill Wonder, who sounded too much like Animal Collective for my taste, so I split. A guy shooting hoops in the rain told me about clown cults in Italy, and how they used to eat people and terrorize them and so forth. The red mouth of the modern clown supposedly symbolizes the bloody jowls of this hideous cannibal clown ancestor. I dunno. Is this true? Did there used to be clown cults in Italy, and did they used to eat people? I would like to think so.

The internet provides little to no evidence supporting the existence of cannibal clown cults.

:(

Okay so I've fallen really hard for Real Estate, but I'm not sure I can say the same for Ducktails. Backyard didn't feel like anything I'd really want to return to.

<3 ducktails, kinda meh on real estate (tho it's certainly not BAD). and i'm getting more mileage out of 'landscapes' than 'backyard' fwiw

cosign ^^

Like em both about equals, and yeah, Landscapes is my favorite Ducktails so far.

Like the s/t on NNF, too.

add note - i also picked up a real estate "live on the radio" lp at that show, which is much more like what i thought they'd sound like live: a clean, bright, unreverby version of the studio stuff, with a v understated rhythm section. looses some of the melancholy psychedelia, but still nice back porch jams. nowhere near as revelatory as woods' "acoustic family creeps" radio session ep.

yeah, i like that woods AFC LP too

yeah, one of my favorite records of the year - wish it were longer

yeah

Still haven't been able to find Landscapes, but am listening to the self-titled Ducktails right now and loving it a lot more than Backyard.

I'm not max or anything but tht sunlounger track is amazing

julian lynch album i like, kinda like a canaxis version of this

I really like the new album, even if it has veered more towards Real Estate territory than his previous albums (i.e. more "songs" and less textural, for the most part). Fair warning though, I'm a sucker for this particular vibe right now.

yeah, been listening to the new one a lot too, "porch projector" and "killin' the vibe" do it for me

I'm not max or anything but tht sunlounger track is amazing

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haha. glad ppl were feeling my sunlounger jam

http://soundcloud.com/dominorecordco/ducktails-the-flower-lane

???

Ducktails - Letter of Intent (my new single, premiered on Vogue today) http://www.vogue.com/culture/article/new-song-debut-ducktails-letter-of-intent-featuring-a-duet-with-jessa-farkas/#1

Are the ??? For the Vogue connection? Song sounds pretty good. Better than the title track, though the Supertramp whistle makes me chuckle every time.

Yeah, just seemed an unlikely place to premiere a Ducktails song.

I really, really like the new one. I get why its kinda divisive, I can see how people who loved the bedroom sound of the self-titled or Landscapes might be put off by how crisp and smooth this is. But I dig how it kinda hits the midpoint between Real Estate, Ford & Lopation 80s sounds, and like Kaputt era Destroyer.

This guy totally lost me A dud in every sense of the word IMO. No identity.

OldHamSweat

hadn't heard these guys before, but i like the latest release, especially the duets with the lady singer. i take it it's kind of a departure from the other stuff?

Well he started out doing pretty lo-fi, fuzzy guitar based stuff, but subsequent releases (esp 2011's III) saw him meandering a little closer to Real Estate (his other band) territory. this one is a huge leap in sound quality and collaboration. the Ford & Lopatin dudes also show up, there are a lot of guests on this.

it's pretty good! especially like the "letter of intent" tune.

i dig this. i'm very happy that the pointless sax solo has made a comeback.

I like Planet Phrom (apparently a cover, he played it at Woodsist Fest and credited the songwriter, can't remember who) off Flower Lane. and Killin the Vibe is all time. other than those standouts though I think I liked Ducktails better when it was more distinct from Real Estate. (maybe not coincidentally my opinion of Real Estate went way up in the meantime, Days was fantastic ... didn't really get into the debut much)

oh here's the original

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP9gFGjebBw

that is a great tape, dude was in the NZ band Snapper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLLAmmqElzM

Anyone else at the Lexington show last night? Phenomenal stuff; the new material is so much better live; looser, freer etc. And Matt Mondanile's guitar work was absolutely sublime. Could happily listen to him puttering about for hours.

Flower Lane grew on me. it's pretty cool, especially the first half.