Welp. This is the second time publishing Duck House Season 6. A second round of white-screen-of-death befell sgp.com a month or two ago. I think we only lost a few posts, but the energy level and enthusiasm to rewrite this one is low!
Here’s the album!
Check the discography page, find it on Bandcamp, or go right to the Google Drive!
And here’s the teaser that originally went up in October 2024.
According to Southernliving.com, the foremost authority on philosophy and chronology, Marty Rubin once said, “Time does not pass, it continues.” If you don’t know Marty Rubin, he is, of course, the Canadian author of The Boiled Frog Syndrome. This is a book I must admit I’ve never heard of. It is also a fascinating title.
Anyway, time is crazy, because as I post Duck House‘s Season 5, it has now been four years since the last release. I’m not sure, but it might be even worse that we began what became the Duck House project nearly 10 years ago – in 2012. This means we’ve been making Duck House albums nearly half as long as Small Glowing Pig has existed. What.
And with that, we present to you Season 5. This project began when Steve and I listened to Season 2 and thought to ourselves, “This is weird. We should do something weird again.” Also it started by wanting to make a dance song (it would become “The Butcher Shop”).
Enjoy the muzak over on the Bandcamp page or check it out on the discography.
-Mike
After weeks of very slow mixing progress, Season 4 is complete. It is, without a doubt, the fourthiest of seasons for Duck House. Thanks again go to collaborators Kate Bojanek and Jim Hernovich for their work on the album. Enjoy!
You can download mp3s here, check out the catalog page, or get some sweet lossless goodness over at Bandcamp.
We’ve got a few ideas for what might be next. Possibly an acoustic EP where we write songs for each other to perform. Maybe a soul record with a focus on historical presidents. Even a video for one of the Duck Houses could be on the docket. We’ll have to wait and see!
-Mike
Finally, we’re nearing the release of Duck House Season 4. Steve and I are listening to some mix downs in a variety of locations and setups to optimize balance and normalize volume. The next post should contain a final release.
Until then, a teaser:
A few days ago we released Duck House Season 3, oddly enough before we released Seasons 1 and 2. Well, today we make right what was once wrong. Behold, Seasons 1 and 2!
Each album includes a handful of One, Two, Three and Unspecified Hour Challenges. There were some clear breaks in writing philosophy and time that aided in making the cutoffs for each Season. Nothing on here is new, except for the mix of Resistance, which reduces the reverb and brings the vocals out a bit to hopefully allow Steve’s melodies to shine a little more. Enjoy!
01 – Free Max-B [download]
02 – Bones are Radioactive [download]
03 – (Fun is) What We’re Made of [download]
04 – Tibet [download]
05 – Parcel Octopus [download]
01 – Blizzard [download]
02 – Universe 25 [download]
03 – Resistance [download]
04 – Silke Kruger [download]
Until next time…
-Mike
In a move that would appeal to maniacs like George Lucas, Duck House makes their label debut by release their first album which is their third album. Also, they call them seasons.
A couple years (2012, holy cow!) ago Steve and I embarked on a journey of challenge songwriting. Each song would be written and recorded in one hour, we proclaimed. We failed on our very first attempt. Not ones to shy away from a challenge, but also not ones to succeed at them, we decided to move the goalposts. We released a few two hour challenge songs, most of which we also failed at. To three hours we went, failing all the while. At some point, we realized we shouldn’t call them challenges any more, and that a new name was in order. This would be our Desert Sessions. This would be our Duck House.
That leads us to today. For the past eight months or so we’ve been recording what would become the third “season” of Duck House. We’ve even documented some of the process. Now you can listen to the final tracks all at once on this very blog update! Enjoy!
01 – Customer Support [download]
02 – Everynight City [download]
03 – Kindness [download] (bonus link on the event that inspired this song)
04 – Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head / I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For / Help! (Medley) [download]
05 – Itsdeeep [download]
Maybe we go back and release seasons one and two at some point…
-Mike
