It’s official! New Jersey native Ducktails has made this summer’s soundtrack. Matthew Mondanile has the brightest psychedelic sound with just the right amount of tolerable noise on a hot summer day and the tropical warmth of the Föhn winds. Not Not Fun finally delivers it fully, after good ideas and bad executions or vice versa. This might be the culmination of a point in time in music history, of the so-called “lo-fi tropical psych-drone” sound.

image by capitodeneuve

Here’s some seriously warm, wobbly, surfy, tropical sounding lo-fi gems that have totally captured our attention! Dripping with such melty, melodic yet slightly tripped out perfection. Ducktails had a lot going for it before we even heard the music, the name obviously (!), the great cover art by Jan Anderzen (Kemialliset Ystavat) and the fact that it was mastered by Graham Lambkin of The Shadow Ring already lead us to believe there might be some kind of magic being brewed under the colorful, inviting cover, so we threw this on the stereo right away and it’s been beyond the perfect soundtrack for the bright and sizzling sunshine days we’ve been baking in for the last couple weeks. Aquarius