With these foundations established, Black Duck is now pushing the envelope further. After touring across Spain with acclaimed Basque musician Elena Setién, the trio felt they had discovered someone else clearly attuned to the Black Duck spirit, and have taken this forward to not only invigorate the project, but to reimagine its very boundaries. Again released with Thrill Jockey, Black Duck with Elena Setién sees Black Duck become a quartet in order to bottle the lightning of this live performance. “This record for me, is a prolongation of that tour together in Spain,” Setién explains. “We combined our sets and every night new improvisations evolved. So we took that same freshness to the studio.”

This was achieved by a fleet-footed approach to recording, the foursome only rehearsing for a matter of hours before heading to the Palisade studio with trusted collaborator Nick Broste and unleashing the spontaneous creativity which has so marked the tour. “Working with Nick Broste was easy and natural for us,” Rumback continues. “At this point we have all probably recorded multiple projects with him in different bands, so it was a shared language that let us move fast.” Setién adds, “Nick is the kind of sound engineer who makes music with the band–sound is his instrument.”

Listen to lead single ‘Land of the Many Eyes’ now:

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