ST. CATHERINE (VINYL)

Unfurling out of Los Angeles comes 'St. Catherine' ' Matt Mondanile's fifth outing as Ducktails.
The new album emerges from the roots of Mondanile's previous work, from the free-form, ambient bedroom experiments of seminal underground release 'Landscapes' (2009), to 2013's eighties pop re-imagination 'The Flower Lane,' but ultimately moves Ducktails on to a more refined, personal and sincere place.
St. Catherine is a finely-honed collection of baroque pop songs that take the blissful, cascading melodic fretwork that Mondanile has made his signature with both Ducktails and his other band, Real Estate, and applies it to songs of considerable new emotional heft and dynamic range.