New band of the day – No 718: Ducktails

With woozy guitars playing over washes of keyboard, this somnolent synth-kid has inspired a new genre – hypnagogic popHometown: New Jersey.The lineup: Matt Mondanile (instruments, production).The background: On Monday, we interviewed legendary rock scribe Nick Kent, a man so "elegantly wasted" – a phrase that he invented in the 1970s – they may as well draft in Russell Brand for the movie version of the former NME freelance's soon-to-be-published memoirs, Apathy for the Devi...

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