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Ducktails - Wish Hotel

Review by Joe Goggins

It's refreshing to see the EP format being used for artistic advancement, rather than a cynical cash-in on unreleased material.»

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Wish Hotel follows the January 2013 release of The Flower Lane, Ducktails’ first long player for Domino. The Flower Lane took a tangential turn away from solo home-recording of past releases towards the more collaborative environment of the studio. Ducktails' Matt Mondanile (who also plays in Real Estate) roped in close friends and colleagues to make something more adventurous yet easy-going. The ten songs on The Flower Lane moved across a range of expressive pop songs that are bright and expansive, but venture even further with forays into saxophone leads, synth lines and piano accompaniment that would have been at home on the early records of sophisticated guitar pop icons such as Aztec Camera and Prefab Sprout.
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