DUCKTAILS- III: Arcade Dynamics CD/LP --> OUT NOW!
Vinyl comes with free digital download that includes an exclusive
bonus track—an alternate version of “Killin’ the Vibe” featuring Panda
Bear.
Ducktails is the one-man psychedelic pop project of Matthew Mondanile,
guitarist for New Jersey’s Real Estate and, more importantly, a proud
son of the mid-1980s. At 22 years old, he started releasing his own
cassette albums. His first 7-inch came out on Breaking World Records
and was followed by a string of LPs, cassettes, and CDs on independent
labels like Not Not Fun, Olde English Spelling Bee, Release the Bats,
Arbor and Goaty Tapes. Now surrounded by a crew of young songwriters,
Mondanile spends his time either touring or recording in the basement
of his parent’s house. Categorized by David Keenan as part of the
“hypnagogic pop” movement, Ducktails realizes a shared cultural memory
and nostalgia through various genres. Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics
is Mondanile’s third official full-length LP and first for Woodsist
Records.
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WHITE FENCE- Is Growing Faith CD/LP ---> OUT NOW!
“Those who expect Tim Presley’s White Fence project to be an extension
of Darker My Love are in for a lysergic surprise. Sure, listen to Is
Growing Faith, and you’ll hear the same ’60s love that’s in Presley’s
day-job band. But replace the boogie bass with The Velvet Underground
and Nico guitars, ramp up the weirdness—you’ll start to feel all the
brown acid in your brain melting into your pineal gland just in time
for the bad trip lyrics to kick in. That and the laughter, and the
reverb, and the echo, and the feeling that this is a nightmare
Presley’s welcoming you to enjoy. Few albums in the recent past have
had such a bleeding, in-the-red mystery (Ween’s The Pod comes to mind,
as does Alex Chilton’s Like Flies on Sherbet, or most of the Ariel
Pink catalog). Is Growing Faith has a calm-before-the-storm feel,
albeit a paisley one filled with hashish-laden clouds of wonder. Aside
from a few well-placed punk drums and vintage guitar sustain that
stretches as late as 1978, this could be the great lost Teenage
Shutdown or Pebbles compilation, with fantastic, fanciful ballads and
faded odes to lost friends all wrapped up in a stoned-ground aural
husk rough enough to wear down one’s teeth. The individual songs each
tell their own story, sometimes in Kinks style, sometimes like a Voxx
Records band from the ’80s, and sometimes like a third-generation
Dylan-buzzed teen who only recently learned two chords on the Farfisa.
Is Growing Faith is so creative, so enjoyable, so deep, one wonders
how Presley does it, what with Darker My Love and The Strange Boys
being just some of his many other projects. Clearly White Fence takes
some go-go-go with its linger-linger-linger. As Presley says in
‘Tumble, Lies & Honesty’: ‘There is a power in me: I never look
behind.’” —Dan Collins, L.A. Record
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