Portland, OR math rockers, Duck. Little
Brother, Duck! launched a US summer tour this week. Topshelf Records will
release the bands’s new LP titled, Don't Take Our Filth Away on July
3rd.
The album will be the band’s first LP to get a physical
release (in addition to digital) and is the follow up to their popular
2010 self-released digital full length "Survival Is Not a Workout"
(which you can listen to here: http://ducklittlebrotherduck1.bandcamp.com).The
record was self recorded, mastered by Carl Saff, and will be available in July
2012.
Duck. Little Brother, Duck! take the upside down
genre of math rock and turn it on its head once again. The band made their
entrance into the Portland scene with fifteen sprawling tracks in the spring of
2010. Survival Is Not A Workout is a smartly-crafted
full-length that travels a rough terrain with tracks like ‘L. Ron Hubbard (We
Did One Of These At The Mall)’ and ‘Steve Jobs (All Is Fun Until Someone Gets
Stabbed)’. The band followed this release up with their first cross-continental
tour (with Girlfriends) that summer where they left audiences, at the very
most, with mouths agape, and at the very least, confused.
But that’s how they like it. Born and bred in the same
petri-dish of Portland, Oregon, the guys grew up throughout the years with the
same friends and the same music taste, which ultimately left them on the same
wavelength. Soon after Jon and Phil left their previous band, The Jezebel Spirit,
the group came together to begin writing and playing shows in the summer of
2009. From there they embarked on a series of short tours, writing and
recording that would produce Survival Is Not A Workout. Their future holds more
of the same, though— knowing their track record— it will be anything but.
· Tour
Dates:
·
· 6/20
– Portland, OR @ TBA w/ Lee Corey Oswald, Pardee Shorts +1 more
· 6/21
– Fresno, CA @ C.A.F.E. Infoshop w/ The Milford Higgins
· 6/22
– Riverside, CA @ Blood Orange Info Shop w/ Caclulator
· 6/23
– Las Vegas, NV @ Zia Records w/ Caravels and Lester Freamon
· 6/24
– Santa Fe, NM @ Betterday Coffee w/ As In We
· 6/25
– Denton, TX w/ Innards, Sohns and Slingshot Dakota
· 6/26
– Austin, TX @ Red 7 w/ Sohns
· 6/27
– New Orleans, LA @ Siberia w/ High In One Eye
· 6/28
– Tallahassee, FL @ St. Michaels Pub
· 6/29
– Orlando, FL @ Will’s Pub w/ Flashlights
· 6/30
– Athens, GA @ The Globe w/ Nurture
· 7/1
– Nashville, TN @ Cafe Coco w/ Gnarwhal
· 7/2
– TBA
· 7/3
– Roanoke, VA @ TBA
· ***7/5
– Baltimore, MD @ The Ottobar
· ***7/6
– New Brunswick, NJ @ The Chocolate Factory
· ***7/7
– Danbury, CT @ Heirloom Arts Theater w/ Fugue and Suns
· ***7/8
– Willimantic, CT @ The Handsome Woman w/ Fugue
· ***7/9
– Boston, MA @ The Wacky Kastle w/ Fugue
· ***7/10
– Portland, ME @ Poland Street House
· ***7/11
– Plattsburgh, NY @ ROTA Gallery
· ***7/12
– Montreal, QC @ L’Absynthe
· ***7/13
– Toronto, ON @ The Garage w/ Animal Faces
· ***7/14
– Grand Rapids, MI @ DAAC w/ You Blew It!
· ***7/15
–Kalamazoo, MI @ The Milhouse w/ The Reptilian and William Bonney
· ***7/16
– Chicago, IL @ Swerp Mansion w/ My Dads and Spanyurd
· 7/17
– Louisville KY @ The Chestnut House
· 7/18
– Kansas City, MI @ FOKL
· 7/19
– Denver, CO @ Blast-O-Mat w/ Orphans
· 7/20
– Salt Lake City, UT @ The Shred Shed
*** = Date with Octaves
What others are saying about Duck. Little Brother, Duck!:
“Looking for something great in terms of modern math
rock? I think you may have found it.”- Circling the Drain
“Their music reminds me to bands like Birthday Boyz, Zona
Mexicana, Kidcrash, 1994! and even Algernon Cadwallader, take the bands
mentioned as a reference, they don’t sound like a rip off from the copy of the
copy.”- Music As Heroin
“They’re insanely spastic about keeping time signatures and
styles but it makes for one of the most interesting bands to listen to ever.”- Skream
Your Lungs Out
“I don’t know how many mathy bands I have listened to that
just let me down with boredom… [ DLBD ] is not one of those bands.” -The
Siren Sound
“If you are into math rock and post punk made by people who
know what they are doing this will be your jam for a while.” -Every Poet's
Disease
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