Ducktails - Backyard (2009)

Genre : Indie,Pop,Lo-Fi,Experimental,Psychedelic
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Tracklist

1. Crystal Vision.
2. Pizza Time.
3. Rhubarb Girl.
4. Theme To Cruisin.
5. Double Dream.
6. Vanaselian (Trees).
7. Why Am I Here?.
8. Extending Self.
9. Chill Jam.
10. Sun Out My Window.
11. Tropical Heat.
12. Backyard.
13. The Mall.
14. Afternoons Tray Sliders.
15. Boating.
16. Island Flavor.
17. Let's Rock The Beach.
18. Status Quo.
19. Udelco.
20. Neptune City, NJ.
21. Dreams In Mirror Field (Excerpt).

DUCKTAILS - BACKYARD CD (RTB#48) Ducktails is Matthew Mondanile from New Jersey and Backyard is an anthology of his first recordings. Raw-sounding and shimmering 3-minute diamonds, longer trance-inducing journeys into heated minds... This is laidback music for late, late summer nights. Though being remastered to suit the CD format, the roughness from the casssettes are still here. Included here is all the tracks from the II tape, the 1992 demo tape, the split tape with Mudboy, some stuff from the Dreams In Mirror Field session as well as some new cuts. Total playtime of 73 minutes. Glossy 4-panel digipack.

"There are certain things artists can do to make us at least consider listening to their music. Usually we're sold if they provide a soothing break in the day through some combination of references including: the beach, the sun, outer space, and/or relaxing in a soft chair. Ridgewood, New Jersey's Matthew Mondanile aka Ducktails uses his roots in drone and other weirdo jams as a launching point for his spiraling guitar and ambient keyboard epics about relaxing and vacations. If it were the '80s, Mondanile would be a surf rat who looked like beef jerky, but the musical climate has changed since then. He's actually a 23-year-old who makes music that MySpace categorizes as "Tropical/Psychedelic," which is about as perfect of a description of what he does as any. Download "Beach Point Pleasant" below and check out Mondanile playing as Ducktails on December 10th at Matchless bar in Brooklyn, with a whole bunch of dates around New York and Jersey to follow." - FADER