Summer isn’t over until this gig happens. Great one-two of off-kilter beauty here: Ducktails is the dreamy side project of Real Estate’s Matthew Mondanile, who wrings some fine music out of droning bedroom jamz and has received a lotta plays of WFMU. Dolphins Into The Future is the aqua-obsessed (not that Aqua) pseudonym of Lieven Martens, who mixes watery found sounds with head-tripping other noises, to the delight of the Wire and more. Hazy sunshine predicted around the Cube until the wee small hours. Stay here forever.
Ducktails + Dolphins into the Future
with Woodtripper
Ducktailsis Matthew Mondanile from New Jersey, who makes raw, mostly instrumental pop music that is two parts heart to one part hypnagogic: sweet, dewy analogue drones, huggable guitar figures that nuzzle at classic rock’s sensitive bosom, and simple tin machine rhythms help propel Mondanile’s present into the warm fuzz of the past. Also one of subsurface pop gang Real Estate, and with strong links to the Skaters/Olde English Spelling Bee axis of psychedelic semi-recall, check last year’s “Landscapes” album for the heartiest portion of Ducktails soup yet, and get ready to slurp yerself happy.
Fading in from Flanders, Belgium, Dolphins into the Future plunges us yet further down the memory well. By turns strange, primal, intimate and transcendental, this is a beautifully drowsy Lowlands take on James Ferraro’s more reflective moments of spooled quasi-devotional psych, with swooning prose from The Wire for last album proper “The Music Of Belief” and a whole library of tapes and CDRs to get lost in besides. “Camp-fiery mind music that sounds like taking a bird-watching nature hike in a sequencer”, froths Impose Magazine, not incorrectly.
Plus support from Bristol’s very own Woodtripper
Part of Arnolfini‘s ‘Time Crisis’ season
