Single Review

Hunchbakk – A Song For Ducks

• 29th Feb 2016

what is the point in contributing to a mildly influential music blog if you can’t take advantage of such a lofty and revered social-standing.

so now we are going deep into the rabbit hole as I attempt to review my own single…

The latest musical output from pseudo-experimental auteur, Hunchbakk, is something of an oddity, as if anyone would expect anything less. Appearing as a special Leap-day release, A Song For Ducks started life as the soundtrack to an artistic YouTube video that documented the creation of a giant Frank Sidebottom style papier-mâché head, but the beat driven machination refused to settle for merely sitting on the sidelines so now it is available in three flavours as a pay-what-you-feel download.

Headlined by the shorter-sweeter edited video version, clocking in at a mere 104 seconds, it is all bleeps and squelches, tastefully adorned by fragmented audio snatches of news reports that add a vague and unsettlingly sense of menace, it it is over almost as soon as it has started. The other options available for your delectation include the slightly extended full version that packs a little more electronic meandering into the sub-3 minute running time, or the bare bones instrumental that is bereft of fear-mongering newscasters.

Playful…. Puerile…. Prophetic…. Who knows, just give it a little listen….

previously published on Desperately Seeking Susan Boyle

Venue: A Song For Ducks
Support Band: Bandcamp