Toronto's Ducks Ltd. and Evan Lewis (guitar, bass, drum programming) met at a Dilly Dally show around the time they were both applying for permanent residency and playing in different local bands, and they were immediately drawn to one another because of their shared love of underappreciated '80s indiepop like Sarah Records (specifically for Tom, U.K. groups like Close Lobsters, the Marxist band McCarthy, anything on Cherry Red Records; for the Australian Evan, The Go-Betweens and Flying Nun Records). The two began composing and recording together in 2018, taking the time to find their musical identities. An entire EP was recorded with outside producers and trashed, never to be published. However, great knowledge of niche pop music does not form a band. Their critically acclaimed debut EP, "Get Bleak," which was originally recorded with live drums and was distributed by the Madrid-based independent Bobo Integral (Tim Cohen, Massage) in 2019 before being re-released on Carpark in 2021 with three more songs. The Ducks Ltd. sound has simple pleasures, just like the music that inspired it, and a project is best served when it's just the two of them trusting the intensity of their creative relationship. That EP, too, was redone—and with a drum machine, created from recordings recorded in Evan's bedroom. It worked out: Ducks Ltd. has shared stages with Juan Waters, Weyes Blood, and The Goon Sax, and they've been lauded in magazines like Pitchfork, The A.V. Club, and NME. Great things are here, and sometimes all you need is a good companion to discover it, according to their first LP Modern Fiction, with its brilliant melodies and gloomy pleasure..

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