Ducks Ltd.

Name: Ducks Ltd.
Start: 2024-07-10T20:30:00-07:00
Location: 2501 Kettner Blvd San Diego CA 92101

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Wed Jul 10 2024 at 08:30 pm

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2501 Kettner Blvd San Diego CA 92101 | San Diego, CA

Ducks Ltd. are a Toronto band featuring Australian lead guitarist Evan Lewis and U.K-born,
U.S.-raised singer, bassist, and rhythm guitarist Tom McGreevy. As Ducks Ltd., the two thrive on
skirting the edges of buoyant jangle pop and driving power pop. Their latest album, Harm’s Way,
contains anxious songs that McGreevy explains are “about struggling. About watching people I
care for suffer, and trying to figure out how to be there for them. And about the strain of living in
the world when it feels like it's ready to collapse.”
Harm’s Way is an undeniable evolution of Ducks Ltd.’s songwriting process. Where their
critically acclaimed 2021 debut Modern Fiction and 2019 EP Get Bleak were self-recorded and
self-produced in a Toronto basement, here, they made an LP in Chicago with producer Dave
Vettraino and some of their favorite musicians. These collaborators include Finom’s Macie
Stewart, Ratboys’ Julia Steiner and Marcus Nuccio, Dehd’s Jason Balla, Moontype’s Margaret
McCarthy, Lawn’s Rui De Magalhaes, Dummy’s Nathan O’Dell, and Patio’s Lindsey-Paige
McCloy. Ducks Ltd.’s touring drummer Jonathan Pappo also appears on the LP.
The band first showed this collaborative streak on a 2023 covers EP, which featured guests like
Mo Troper, Ratboys, Illuminati Hotties, and Jane Inc. that boasted renditions of songs by The
Cure, The Feelies, and The Jesus and Mary Chain. Where those songs started as ideas on
days off from tour, Harm’s Way is also a product of writing on the road while supporting acts like
Nation of Language and Archers of Loaf. “When we got signed, we had played maybe five or six
shows ever,” says McGreevy. “After last year, it’s well in the hundreds. Those things change
your perception of your own music and songwriting.”
This well-earned and road-tested confidence made the making of this LP their most intuitive and
organic yet. “Our relationship is built on trust and we don't let our egos come into the creative
process in any way,” says Lewis. “We have this really great thing where every decision with the
band is filtered through both of us. Here especially, we really figured out how to make something
that truly sounds like us.”