Ducktails (album) explained

Ducktails
Type:studio
Artist:Ducktails
Cover:Ducktailsalbum.jpg
Released:May 11, 2009
Length:39:01
Label:Not Not Fun
Next Title:Landscapes
Next Year:2009

Ducktails is the self-titled debut studio album by American recording project Ducktails, released on May 11, 2009 on Not Not Fun. The album is the first of two full-length albums released in 2009, with Landscapes following three months later.

Artwork

Regarding the album's artwork, Matt Mondanile noted: "The first record – all those stripes – that’s this artist in Finland named Jan Anderzen. He makes this insane-o music, but I was super into his art for a long time. He just makes these crazy paintings. I always want artists to do things."[1]

Reception

In a positive review, Allmusics Jesse Jarnow wrote: "perhaps the most productive way to think of Mondanile's work is as beach-time ambience, like Boards of Canada, should they choose to roam the vast Jersey Shore of the mind instead of their own icy wastes.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Self-Titled Interview: Ducktails. self-titledmag.com. 7 December 2015. 22 December 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151222114306/http://www.self-titledmag.com/2010/12/13/the-self-titled-interview-ducktails/. dead.
  2. Web site: Ducktails – Ducktails . Jesse . Jarnow . self-allmusic.com . 9 December 2015.