Oh damn, Ducks Ltd. did it again — and this time they’re going from the illuminati to the incorporated. The Canadian indie band caught our attention (yet again) back in March with a collaborative cover of The Jesus And Mary Chain’s classic alternative banger “Head On” alongside illuminati hotties, and today (August 2) saddle up with fellow Torontonian Jane Inc. for a spin around The Cure’s “In Between Days.”
The cover, like the first, is the part of Ducks Ltd.’s ongoing The Sincerest Form of Flattery series. And like the OG, it moves. Then again, it’s pretty hard to fuck this one up.
“Robert Smith is a genius and The Cure are the best and I absolutely love this song,” says Ducks Ltd.’s Tom McGreevy. “It’s such a simple one but all of the pieces slot together so neatly. We listened to all the demos he made of it, and it’s cool to hear how clearly the fundamental parts of it are realized on the very first one, even though he doesn’t have any lyrics yet and is just wordlessly singing the melody (which I also do when we demo stuff!). We mostly tracked this one on a day off when we were on tour with Nation of Language, so the vocal was tracked in the front seat of a parked Mitsubishi Outlander in the middle of the night outside an Airbnb in Grand Junction, Colorado. It’s also the first thing we’ve made that our bass player Katie plays on.”
Of enlisting Jane Inc., McGreevy adds: “Carlyn Bezic (a.k.a. Jane Inc.) has been a pal for maybe a decade and is one the best musicians in Toronto. I’ve seen her in so many bands and it’s been so cool to watch the Jane Inc. project come together, as it feels like she just keeps refining and perfecting a creative vision that was already clear in some of the first projects I saw her in. I’ve wanted to do something with her for forever, so I was super excited she said yes to this!”
Swim with it below.
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