Review: Ducks Ltd. – Modern Fiction

Ducks Ltd. - Modern Fiction

There aren’t many bands like Ducks Ltd. (formerly known as Ducks Unlimited) around anymore. That’s it, that’s the pitch. Just kidding, Ducks Ltd. are excellent because their music transcends genre, time, and space. After releasing an expanded reissue of their debut EP, Get Bleak, in May this year, the pair – Tom McGreevy (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards) and Evan Lewis (guitar, bass, drum programming) – prioritised lively music and warmth with self-aware critiques of living under capitalism. The duo later somehow managed to release their debut album, Modern Fiction. At the same time, McGreevy was in Toronto and Lewis in his native Australia, unable to travel anywhere due to COVID-19 and Australia’s harsh border closures.

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Review: The Way Down Wanderers – More Like Tomorrow

Coming off of the success of their 2019 breakthrough record, Illusions, folk rockers The Way Down Wanderers have returned with their sophomore effort entitled More Like Tomorrow. This five-member band from Peoria, Illinois have made an album worthy of the heart that they affectionately used to cover this collection of ten songs brimming with purpose and professional poise. The band is unique in that they have two lead songwriters/vocalists in Collin Krause and Austin Krause-Thompson, and yet their combination of tackling core themes like addiction, relationships, and living life to the fullest never seems forced or appear to be a struggle between the two core songwriters. More Like Tomorrow is a nice encapsulation of this period of time in our lives where we search for our “true north” and let go of the outside noise that distracts us from living our best lives.

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