Duncan Fellows

One Liner: Surprisingly fun indie rockers from Austin

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, indie rock
Home: Austin.

Poster Position: 23
Day: Friday at 2:15
Weekend Two Only.

Thoughts:  Kinda cool band name, in that some of the guys from the band met as roommates (of sorts, their bio says 14 people lived in one house, and that the two guys who formed the band met only when roaches invaded their kitchen trash, so maybe roommates is a strong word) in a house on Duncan Lane in Austin.  So they are the Duncan Fellows.  I figured this was going to be a dude, whose name was Duncan Fellows, who played sensitive indie ballads comparing his lady's lady bits to flowers.  Nope!  Its solidly fun indie rock that borders on poppiness just because its so damn catchy and harmony-filled.  Sometimes the guitars chime like Real Estate, sometimes the vocals sound like Mac DeMarco.  

Just one album, 2017's Both Sides of the Ceiling.  But for a band with only one album, hanging down on the 23rd line of the poster, they've got pretty solid streaming numbers, with several over 500k and one that has apparently been featured on a Spotify playlist to get up to close to a million.  This is "Fresh Squeezed," with 951k streams.

That one kicks off like an 80's new wave jam.  Although I'd like to ask why the guy put water on to boil at low temp, but then doesn't appear to have done anything with it?  Unless he somehow burned eggs by cooking them in low heat water?  Was there some bitter oatmeal he forgot to mention?  I need an investigation.  Why did his breakfast turn out so poorly and what role does lo heat water have to do with it?  Sweet lo fi video too.  Wait, is that the same set of puppets that was in the video from Sweet Spirit?  Is there an underground musician puppeteer ring that I didn't know about?

Their second-most streamed tune is called "Coffins," and I found a live version of it on video for you to enjoy.  633k streams.

Yeah, man.  Another good tune.  The whole album is solid work - good instrumentation and good lyrics and vocals.  Kinda funky, but still pretty chilled out.  I'm in.