Ducktails, the side project of Real Estate's Matt Mondanile, has just released 'The Flower Lane', which is the project's fourth album and his first for the Domino Records label. Recorded and mixed last summer with Al Carlson (Peaking Lights, Oneohtrix Point Never) the ten track album dropped on January 28 - together with the single release of effervescent pop gem, 'Letter of Intent'.
The ten songs on The Flower Lane move across a range of expressive pop songs that are bright and expansive, but venture even further with forays into saxophone leads, synth lines and piano accompaniment that would have been at home on the early records of sophisticated guitar pop icons such as Aztec Camera and Prefab Sprout.
With brooding seducers 'Under Cover', 'The Flower Lane' and 'Sedan Magic' along with a stunning cover of founding Clean/Chills member Peter Gutteridge's 'Planet Phrom', the ambient pop of 'The Flower Lane' is, from start to finish, as spirited as the time the band obviously had recording it.
Ducktails are about to embark on an 8-date European tour, including playing in the UK at Brighton's Green Door Store on February 24 and The Lexington, London, on February 25.
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