We wrote about Brooklyn’s Yucky Duster back in June, when we described their self-titled debut EP as a combination of “scrappy garage rock and sweet 60s-style sun-drenched pop, as well as a burnt-out punk sensibility… although things usually remain on the catchy and fun side of the genre”. Now the four-piece are back with a new EP, Duster’s Lament, five fun and quirky indie pop songs.
‘Thaw’ is a raw indie pop song about belly button infections, snow days and conversations regarding gentrification. Pretty much a standard day, then. The song is a great intro to how Yucky Duster use bouncy lo-fi pop songs to be simultaneously crabby and hopeful, to delve into not just those sparkly special moments that life sometimes serves up, but also the bummer of the day-to-day.
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‘The Ropes’ is a psych-tinged pop gem, all swaying guitar and shifts in tempo, before the anxiously sassy ‘Different People’, which opens with the lines “at it again, stuck inside my head / with all my friends, will it every change? / how can all these faces be so calm and cool and happy all the time?”. Closing track ‘Elementary School Dropout’ is a current favourite, the droll vocals presented front and centre, rolling around on swells of good ol’ fashioned indie pop, lamenting a past of bad behaviour and poor punctuality.
“I’m an elementary school dropout
I break the rules like every single time
I’m the bad girl in the corner
cos I can never get to school on time”
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Duster’s Lament is out now on cassette on Infinity Cat Recordings, and as a digital download on the Yucky Duster Bandcamp page.
