Despite the nursery rhyme-like title and humorous artwork, “Duck Duck Goose” turns out to be a rather smart, intricate, and surprisingly sophisticated piece of indie music. More than that, given that this is only Harris Rafferty’s second release, it is the sound of someone who seems to have landed in the musical landscape with complete confidence, pretty much fully formed and firmly standing on his own two feet.
Not for him all that boring business of doing your creative growing up in public; this is the sound of someone just getting on with the job at hand, especially when the job at hand is to deliver perfectly poised, post-Britpop, blinding indie anthems.
And there is also more at work lyrically than the title might suggest. Balancing the playful with the profound, this is a reminder not to get caught in those emotional undertows and eddies that stop us from being ourselves. It’s a message that comes straight from the heart of this astute singer-songwriter, a tale born of experience. And it shows.
“Duck Duck Goose” has it all, guitars that chime, and charge in equal measure, unbounded energy – part indie cool, part rock urgency – fun and finesse, humour and heart. This is the sound of indie music breaking away from all that holier-than-thou nonsense, all that overearnest and highfalutin’ opinion of itself, and reminding us that music is meant to be fun. Otherwise, what’s the point?
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