“Delivery” by Ducks! is Like a Puzzle Montage of Tone, Texture and Rhythm

Lani Bagley and Craig Schuftan have been writing their idiosyncratic dance music together since 2014 as Ducks! Their new single “Delivery” comes with a collage art animation video worthy of the duo’s imaginative and eclectic compositions. The song sounds out of time like it could have been composed any time in the last fifty or sixty years except that some of the technology to process the track probably didn’t exist in quite the same form in the 1950s. The playful and organic percussion and buoyant melody sounds like the duo sequestered themselves somewhere and took in only a whole lot of bossa nova, Raymond Scott, Rubblebucket, David Byrne and some Anne Dudley soundtrack work as well as her recordings with her old band The Art of Noise. It sounds like music put together like an adaptive puzzle wherein the songwriters plucked sounds and ideas that would sound good together and whimsical yet not perverse. Not unlike Tim Klein’s puzzle montages in which he uses the pieces from the same manufacturer to create alternative images, “Delivery” is a pop song from the left field application of the musical imagination. Watch the video and follow Ducks! at the links below.

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