Sunday Brunch: Ducktails from Ray Concepcion on Vimeo.
This live Ducktails video reminds me of 1990's suburban life: hanging out at friends' houses, going to the park to play soccer or walk around, driving at least 20 minutes to get anywhere, having nowhere to go late at night, playing around with melodic loops for hours at a time. Real Estate weigh in with similar evocations here.
These guys and some of the other lo-fi bands proliferating recently had initially left me kinda cold. I'm still not partial to all of this stuff, but the weirdly subliminal quality of the Ducktails material is fascinating and the Daytrotter session in the above link proves that when the lo-fi murk is scrubbed off Real Estate, they've got some strong songwriting and sterling guitar interplay at their disposal.
