5 ...according to our Business Lady on 26 August 2010.
Been waiting a while for this little beauty and it's been worth the wait. Two more delicious helpings of jangle heavy, sun drenched, blissed out jams to save what's left of my crappy summer. I've been hammering 'Landscapes' and the self titled LP so it's a treat to have a couple of newies to beam off. A-side 'Apple Walk' is a bitter sweet almost ballad-esque tune that is still as light as a summer breeze and tasteful as a whole stack of Olde English Spelling Bee LP's. It's packed with the instinctual, spur-of-moment lo-fi charm I've come to expect from Matthew Mandanile's recordings. Blissful and mildly melancholic guitars coupled are with a singular distant guitar solo and an inarticulate garbled vocal delivery to create a slightly sentimental sounding ode to something important. Flip this tasty treat over and you've got a outstanding lo-fi arpeggio jam that shares a little in common with 'Deck Observatory' from 'Landscapes' and really takes you into the 'O' zone. Both sides showcase what our Ducktails man has to offer and is a must have purchase for anyone with sense. You can catch Ducktails on tour in the UK in September and if you've not already done so, take some time out and listen to the Real Estate, Alex Bleeker and the Freaks and Predator Vision/Sun Araw split LP's he has played his part in creating. I think I've said enough. PIZZA SIGNS!
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Wooo yeah...TWO NEW TRACKS ON THIS 1000 only pressing, Ducktails are on tour in Spain right now, Real Estate tour UK next month... One of the tracks is on their myspace to check out myspace.com/ducktailss its just great imaginery surf / psych lo-fi and pop...brilliant stuff!