Ducktails

Ducktails is the solo project of Matthew Mondanile, a founding member of Ridgewood, New Jersey indie beach bums Real Estate. While not too dissimilar in tone from their own sun-kissed pop, Mondanile's work as Ducktails presents a more fragmented, mercurial version of the Garden State of mind. Mondanile's output under the Ducktails moniker was prolific and perhaps a tad illusory to start; he released numerous ultra-rare cassettes and CD-Rs, a pair of 7"s, and a pair of "official" LPs (a self-titled album on Not Not Fun and Landscapes on Olde English Spelling Bee) by 2009. In a...