Ex Cops

Barry Divolla from Australia's Who Magazine(Aussie equivalent to USA's People) writes this week about Ex Cops. Ex Cops are some new band probably from Brooklyn. Barry says if The Chills, early REM, Velvet Underground, The Feelies, The Smiths and Galaxy 500 mean everything to you then check out Ex Cops' LP True Hallucinations. All those bands I love (the first 3 REM LPs are gold and so are their 5th & 6th) so I wont be checking out this new record. Why the fuck would I? I'll just listen to those old records. The late 60s and the 80s are a long time ago. I can't really imagine this band being anywhere near that league of bands. That league is the highest water mark in underground guitar pop/rock ever. At this late stage it's hard to imagine anyone coming close to those epochal legends.

I wanted the Murmur version of Pilgrimage but couldn't 

find it. This is just as good anyway!

Yay!

More Yay!

Jesus they were really cookin' with Craig Gannon

on 2nd guitar. This fucking rocks!

How good?

Gotta have another!

'Listen to the Byrds sing on the tape recorder.'

RE: What ever happened to Ducktails?

Anyway diggin' on this now.

III: Arcade Dynamics

Ducktails

(11)

Anyway I was listening to this thinking 'Who does this remind me of?'

I started recalling my original thoughts on who their influences might have been from

back then. New Order/Galaxie 500 came to mind as well as Dif Juz and Durutti Column

which in 2008 was hard to believe that the later two groups were being

referenced by a young group from America.  This guy was probably not even alive when

Vini Rielly and Dif Juz released those records in the early 80s.

It made me think what a breath of fresh air they were back in 08.

When I say fresh air I also mean it as a description of their

lovely music.  Anyway they reminded me of Ducktails.

I realised they'd released a bunch of top records while pretty much

flying under the radar of most people.  This was the sound of hazy sunshine,  

the gentle rippling of waves and wasted summer days being wasted.  

Ducktails along with Dolphins Into The Future

will forever remind me of a holiday I spent in Fiji a few years back. In the barmy

evenings I would listen to them while drinking vodka after spending a hot day

in and by the water. It was like I was still floating in the water

or lazing on a boat in the middle of the pacifc ocean.



Anyway track down these classics and break out the drinks with umbrellas, along

with whatever else you might want to imbibe.

 

II

Ducktails

(08)

Landscapes

Ducktails
(09)

Ducktails

Ducktails
(09)