Ducktails

how old are you?

26

this stuff kinda reminds me of harmonia/cluster, except at 45 rpm.

^otm^

considering that every post in this thread is in praise of ducktails, what on earth is the point in coming just to talk shit? go and start a poll for the 17th greatest pop single of the 00s or something dude

the above youtube reminds me of a new age of earth era ashra

i'm liking "parasails", i wouldn't normally seek out that split 7" but this is good stuff

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Yeah, only ONE opinion per thread here, fella. Be down, or get beat down.

heard this the other day, pretty much love it, yup.

considering that every post in this thread is in praise of ducktails, what on earth is the point in coming just to talk shit? go and start a poll for the 17th greatest pop single of the 00s or something dude

the above youtube reminds me of a new age of earth era ashra

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lol u dont follow my posts at all do you
anywayz im not so sure whats wrong with asking someone to explain its appeal -- im not here to talk shit, im here to understand why ppl whose taste i follow i.e. max are repping for this when i think its pretty zzzz & im not sure what its doing thats so unique. i mean if were gonna go easy listening why not go all the way? this is a jam:

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

that IS a jam

tbh i just said "i dig this" which i do, also that is a jam

i don't see that liking sunlounger and ducktails is mutually exclusive, though. deej, if you don't like it, you don't like it. i'm not going to try and convince you of its endearing musical qualities. try smoking some weed.

fair enough if you don't like it but i dunno it just seemed like you stormed in, listened to half a youtube and decided to tell everyone it's boring in a snarky manner. my apologies if i caught the wrong end of the stick.

anyway i'm not max or anything but i think it has lots of appeal beyond the lofi recording aspect, much like nite jewel, the tunes are top notch and would be great regardless of the recording context. i agree alot of stuff like this suffers by making the lofi aspect its only virtue, but at the same time "overplayed cassette" wooz and hiss is to me pretty refreshing after hearing so much immaculately produced music over the last few years

nite jewel is pretty rad at least.

The song "Neptune City NJ" from Backyard has a mellow Terry Riley vibe to it. I like it.

deej u like crazytown so

its ok that youre not max rio not everyone is

http://www.facebook.com/people/Max-Rio/1622657007?ref=search

max rio, p.i.

so the ducktails dude also does real estate right? cuz the real estate album is really great. i haven't kept up much with in vogue beachcomber seaweed indie but i like this a lot. there are def songs that sound like the shins but i think it's got a very CCR quality about it imo, laid back, backwoods guitar strumming kinda thing

Made a mix for my friends at the Bakery centered around the Real Estate "Fake Blues" 7" It also includes "Let's Rock the Beach" by Ducktails. They were listening to it today when I got my lunch!

"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.

...this guy.

https://pitchfork.com/news/matt-mondanile-addresses-sexual-misconduct-allegations/

Whole lotta garbage here.

https://pitchfork.com/news/julia-holter-says-matt-mondanile-was-emotionally-abusive/

Julia Holter's story

*fart

Matt "I respect women because I donated to RAINN" Mondanile sure loves liking anti-feminist, conservative MRA crap on Twitter pic.twitter.com/Qa9PARCkGl

— Kat Bee (@katbeee) January 26, 2018

Calling someone out over their Twitter likes is a bit unfair though as I know a lot of people who use it as a bookmarking system rather than for agreeing with a Tweet's sentiment.

Not saying that's the case here but there's been plenty of threads about it in the last week now that other user's likes are showing up in people's feeds.

It's shite tbh and we should bh

I mean, he admits he is an “abuser” in that facebook statement and kind of pleads for a second chance. He apologizes to Julia Holter. Maybe it’s not sincere — I wouldn’t want my female friends going near him — but it seems like a weird opportunity to pile on again. More people know Matt Mondanile is a predator than can name even one Ducktails song—he’s done.

It is a very self-pitying post, I’ll admit. But he’s trash—it shouldn’t be surprising.

Ok screenshotting the donation page in the plea for absolution is pretty lol/transparently self-serving

So I finally got around to listening to The Flower Lane and it's good!
Too bad this guy's a sex pest, though.
Any recommendations for music like this, but not by a sex pest?

ecstatic sunshine

will try, ty!

https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000040446652-wqlzjk-t500x500.jpg