Ducks! are Lani Bagley and Craig Schuftan, making electronic music for dancing and dreaming since 2014. Last year, the Berlin-based Australians released their debut album ‘Ding Ding Ding’, were long-listed for the AMP (Australian Music Prize), recorded music for art-world memoirs and surrealist radio adventures, played extensively in Germany and the UK, and toured Australia with Moonsign as Moonducks! Their latest release ‘Nak Nak’ is an album that lives underwater. Over twelve songs, Ducks! explore the life aquatic, from tiny ponds and rock pools to great, dark oceans; from the imaginary childhood sea of blue crepe waves and paper fish hung from coat hangers, to the real thing; huge, teeming with life, but so alien to the everyday world of humans that it might as well be outer space.
To describe this strange world, Ducks! deployed collage, graphic scores, dice-throwing, cut-ups and found objects, engineering endless surprises in their Tiny Lights studio. The resulting strangeness was then subjected to the discipline of disco; the pair were influenced as much by Sister Sledge, The Tom Tom Club and Basement Jaxx as by John Cage’s ‘Water Walk’. What came out at the end is dance music for sea-weirdos, an hour’s worth of dreamy, low-budget electronica, as bizarre and beautiful as the creatures that inspired its creation.
Nak Nak is out now
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