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.
― cutty, Monday, 31 August 2009 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Monday, 31 August 2009 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Monday, 31 August 2009 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
nite jewel is pretty rad at least.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 31 August 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
The song "Neptune City NJ" from Backyard has a mellow Terry Riley vibe to it. I like it.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 31 August 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
deej u like crazytown so
― ( ´_ゝ˙) (Dr. Phil), Monday, 31 August 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
its ok that youre not max rio not everyone is
― fleetwood (max), Monday, 31 August 2009 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/people/Max-Rio/1622657007?ref=search
― ( ´_ゝ˙) (Dr. Phil), Monday, 31 August 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
max rio, p.i.
― fleetwood (max), Monday, 31 August 2009 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
"Dolphins..." seconded.
I missed this guy a few weeks back, too bad (saw Shoji Hano and Dean Roberts instead, which was worth it).
― CharlieS, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 01:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Man what has Dean Roberts been doin?
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― CharlieS, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 03:09 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― It's Favre O'Clock Somewhere!!! (leavethecapital), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Really liking the two Real Estate 7"s so far, particularly "Suburban Beverage". Need to get ahold of some Ducktails stuff.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
the real estate album is really nice.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Is it out? Leaked?
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks, I'll have to get ahold of that one.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
plz leo that n/a thx
― how rad bandit (gbx), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Shit is hard to google.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i know!
― how rad bandit (gbx), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
search on here:
http://www.supersuperdb.com/
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks, didn't know about that site.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
these guys are playing chicago tomorrow, I am pondering going but probably won't because I am lazy.
― dr johnson (askance johnson), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― my full five minutes of iguana time (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 November 2009 08:51 (fourteen years ago) link
The internet provides little to no evidence supporting the existence of cannibal clown cults.
:(
― my full five minutes of iguana time (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 November 2009 09:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 November 2009 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
<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
― psychgawsple, Thursday, 19 November 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
cosign ^^
― 69, Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Like em both about equals, and yeah, Landscapes is my favorite Ducktails so far.
― my full five minutes of iguana time (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 November 2009 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Like the s/t on NNF, too.
― my full five minutes of iguana time (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 November 2009 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― contenderizer, Friday, 20 November 2009 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, i like that woods AFC LP too
― 69, Friday, 20 November 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, one of my favorite records of the year - wish it were longer
― contenderizer, Friday, 20 November 2009 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 11 December 2009 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not max or anything but tht sunlounger track is amazing
― conezy (cozwn), Friday, 11 December 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
julian lynch album i like, kinda like a canaxis version of this
― plax (ico), Monday, 8 March 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, been listening to the new one a lot too, "porch projector" and "killin' the vibe" do it for me
― the tune is space, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
― conezy (cozwn), Friday, December 11, 2009 8:32 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
haha. glad ppl were feeling my sunlounger jam
― *gets the power* (deej), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/dominorecordco/ducktails-the-flower-lane
― mizzell, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
???
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
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
Are the ??? For the Vogue connection? Song sounds pretty good. Better than the title track, though the Supertramp whistle makes me chuckle every time.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, just seemed an unlikely place to premiere a Ducktails song.
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
This guy totally lost me A dud in every sense of the word IMO. No identity.
― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
will try, ty!
― Nhex, Monday, 23 March 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000040446652-wqlzjk-t500x500.jpg
― marcel the shell with swag on (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link