Toronto's Ducks Ltd. aren't a country band, but there's a chug-a-lug momentum to "Train Full of Gasoline" that recalls one of those Johnny Cash songs about riding the rails, and an ultra-bright lead guitar that bridges the gap between twanging country and jangling indie pop.
There's also a country-informed lyrical economy to singer Tom McGreevy's perfectly placed syllables and internal rhymes, as he deftly describes someone on the brink of self-destruction: "There's always another dagger hidden in the sleeve / Another bullet in the magazine / A way to get yourself set / Up to roll back down the same long track / Set up to explode like a train full of gasoline."
It comes accompanied by a Toronto-touring video directed by boy wonder (shout out to St. George station). Ducks Ltd.'s sophomore album, Harm's Way, arrives February 9.
(Royal Mountain Records)There's also a country-informed lyrical economy to singer Tom McGreevy's perfectly placed syllables and internal rhymes, as he deftly describes someone on the brink of self-destruction: "There's always another dagger hidden in the sleeve / Another bullet in the magazine / A way to get yourself set / Up to roll back down the same long track / Set up to explode like a train full of gasoline."
It comes accompanied by a Toronto-touring video directed by boy wonder (shout out to St. George station). Ducks Ltd.'s sophomore album, Harm's Way, arrives February 9.
