““People keep on saying the songs that they’ve been playing will never ever change the world,” sings Ricky Wilson on the feel-good romp of ‘Duck’ single ‘People Know How To Love One Another’. “There’s boots on the ground and every single sound is like a bomb that will never explode”. Maybe he’s looking back on the years since the early ‘00s indie revolution, with the fires of the riot they once pre”
“Having dallied with Xenomania’s Brian Higgins for their poppy, patchy, yet commendably risky sixth album Stay Together (2016), the Leeds lads return to the indie arms of Ben H Allen, producer of their fifth, Education, Education, Education & War and albums by Deerhunter and Animal Collective. Duck crashlands in as confused a space as that might suggest; it’s a very mainstream record, but doesn’t s”
