Ducks Ltd. – the jangle-pop duo of Tom McGreevy and Ethan Lewis – are back with their sophomore record Harm’s Way. The new album has been met with glowing reviews from Pitchfork, Under The Radar, Paste, and Exclaim, and was produced with Dave Vettraino in Chicago. I worked with them on a handful of songs in Brooklyn at Gary’s Electric (“Cathedral City” and “Deleted Scenes” made the cut), but I feel like my greatest contribution was encouraging them to write a slow song – the closer “Heavy Bag” turned out beautifully. Harm’s Way is out now on Carpark Records.

Louisville-based weirdo rocker trio Wombo are back with their new LP Fairy Rust. The record is Brooklyn Vegan’s Album Of The Week on Indie Basement (and you can read an interview with them elsewhere on the site), Paste Magazine says the album “casts an unbreakable spell”, and The Fader calls it “an intriguing art-rock elixir”. The band recorded with long-time collaborator Nick Roeder in Louisville, mixed with Dave Vettraino in Chicago, and I mastered it at Studio Windows in Brooklyn. Fairy Rust is out now on Fire Talk Records.