Ducks Ltd | Modern Fiction | Vinyl LP - 18 Cigarettes Smoke

Toronto\u2019s Ducks Ltd. (formerly Ducks Unlimited), the bright jangle-pop duo of Tom McGreevy (lead vocal, guitar, bass, keyboards) and Evan Lewis (guitar, bass, drum programming), accomplish the impossible. The pair craft songs that play to very specific inspirations without drowning underneath them\u2014immediately evidenced on their critically acclaimed EP, Get Bleak, and sharpened on Modern Fiction, their debut LP. \u201CThe Servants, The Clean, The Chills, The Bats, Television Personalities, Felt,\u201D Evan rattles off. \u201CLook Blue Go Purple is one I reference a lot with our production.\u201D Echoes of \u201880s indiepop abound, but they never overwhelm. This is not a nostalgic record, after all, nor is it a derivative one. Instead, across 10 cheery-sounding songs, Ducks Ltd. Explore contemporary society in decline, examining large scale human disaster through personal turmoil (hence the title, taken from a university course called Gnosticism and Nihilism in Modern Fictio.