Black Duck - Black Duck (2023)
BAND/ARTIST: Black Duck
- Title: Black Duck
- Year Of Release: 2023
- Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre: Alternative
- Quality: FLAC (tracks)
- Total Time: 35 min
- Total Size: 187 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Black Duck brings together three pillars of the Chicago music community: guitarist/bassist Douglas McCombs, guitarist Bill MacKay and drummer Charles Rumback.
"Black Duck is a gallery of sonic tapestries, unbound by any genre constraints while also utilizing genre touchstones. Challenging what a trio of two guitarists and a drummer can do, pieces move from breezy shuffles to stormy blues rumbles to gorgeous textural drones. Playing entirely improvised live sets for years helped develop the trio’s acute senses for one another, knowing precisely how to listen to the others and bolster whatever direction they move in. Steeped in each other’s voices, Black Duck entered the studio with engineer/producer John Hughes III with only three tunes written prior, one by each member, and the remaining pieces took shape much as their live performances, improvised on themes or simple motifs.
McCombs’ “Of the Lit Backyards” is a meditation on the adaptability of human beings, turning the glow of newly reconfigured outdoor spaces, safer to gather in during lockdowns, into swaying western americana. MacKay’s more urgent “Delivery” carves jagged melodies through a rolling bedrock as waves of distant chords pull the ensemble deeper into the unknown. The resolute thud of Rumback’s “The Trees Are Dancing” makes use of space as it gradually grows more dense and colorful. The improvised pieces bring an equal amount of subtle touches and delightful surprises as their more composed counterparts. “Lemon Treasure” builds from an anxious beginning into an ecstatic swirl and “Second Guess” tapping into freeform revelations akin to labelmates Jim White & Marisa Anderson’s collaborative work. The maximalist “Thunder Fade That Earth Smells” whips up a tempest of percussive showers and washes of fuzz where the spare “Light’s New Measure” exhibits some of the album’s most delicate and subtly powerful movements.
Black Duck captures a band already deeply in tune with one another. McCombs, Rumback, and MacKay each have distinct musical voices that are instantly recognizable, yet blend seamlessly with one another. Their time performing together, playing to the moment and reading each other and the spaces they’re in, formed a fluency between the trio which allows them to follow each other down winding paths and short tangents alike. Black Duck’s debut is a testament to that fluency, an expedition led by three veterans into alluring worlds bathed in myriad splendors."
Tracklist:
1.01 - Black Duck - Of the Lit Backyards (4:00)
1.02 - Black Duck - Foothill Daze (2:12)
1.03 - Black Duck - Delivery (5:03)
1.04 - Black Duck - Second Guess (5:19)
1.05 - Black Duck - The Trees Are Dancing (3:51)
1.06 - Black Duck - Thunder Fade That Earth Smells (4:46)
1.07 - Black Duck - Lemon Treasure (4:18)
1.08 - Black Duck - Light's New Measure (6:14)
"Black Duck is a gallery of sonic tapestries, unbound by any genre constraints while also utilizing genre touchstones. Challenging what a trio of two guitarists and a drummer can do, pieces move from breezy shuffles to stormy blues rumbles to gorgeous textural drones. Playing entirely improvised live sets for years helped develop the trio’s acute senses for one another, knowing precisely how to listen to the others and bolster whatever direction they move in. Steeped in each other’s voices, Black Duck entered the studio with engineer/producer John Hughes III with only three tunes written prior, one by each member, and the remaining pieces took shape much as their live performances, improvised on themes or simple motifs.
McCombs’ “Of the Lit Backyards” is a meditation on the adaptability of human beings, turning the glow of newly reconfigured outdoor spaces, safer to gather in during lockdowns, into swaying western americana. MacKay’s more urgent “Delivery” carves jagged melodies through a rolling bedrock as waves of distant chords pull the ensemble deeper into the unknown. The resolute thud of Rumback’s “The Trees Are Dancing” makes use of space as it gradually grows more dense and colorful. The improvised pieces bring an equal amount of subtle touches and delightful surprises as their more composed counterparts. “Lemon Treasure” builds from an anxious beginning into an ecstatic swirl and “Second Guess” tapping into freeform revelations akin to labelmates Jim White & Marisa Anderson’s collaborative work. The maximalist “Thunder Fade That Earth Smells” whips up a tempest of percussive showers and washes of fuzz where the spare “Light’s New Measure” exhibits some of the album’s most delicate and subtly powerful movements.
Black Duck captures a band already deeply in tune with one another. McCombs, Rumback, and MacKay each have distinct musical voices that are instantly recognizable, yet blend seamlessly with one another. Their time performing together, playing to the moment and reading each other and the spaces they’re in, formed a fluency between the trio which allows them to follow each other down winding paths and short tangents alike. Black Duck’s debut is a testament to that fluency, an expedition led by three veterans into alluring worlds bathed in myriad splendors."
Tracklist:
1.01 - Black Duck - Of the Lit Backyards (4:00)
1.02 - Black Duck - Foothill Daze (2:12)
1.03 - Black Duck - Delivery (5:03)
1.04 - Black Duck - Second Guess (5:19)
1.05 - Black Duck - The Trees Are Dancing (3:51)
1.06 - Black Duck - Thunder Fade That Earth Smells (4:46)
1.07 - Black Duck - Lemon Treasure (4:18)
1.08 - Black Duck - Light's New Measure (6:14)
Year 2023 | Alternative | FLAC / APE
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