Ducks Ltd. / Good Flying Birds
Date and Time
Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Location
Empty Bottle
1035 N. Western Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
Artists / Performers
Event Details
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ Ducks Ltd. are a Toronto band featuring Australian lead guitarist Evan Lewis and U.K-born, U.S.-raised singer, bassist, and rhythm guitarist Tom McGreevy. As Ducks Ltd., the two thrive on skirting the edges of buoyant jangle pop and driving power pop. Their latest album, Harms Way, contains anxious songs that McGreevy explains are about struggling. About watching people I care for suffer, and trying to figure out how to be there for them. And about the strain of living in the world when it feels like its ready to collapse.Harms Way is an undeniable evolution of Ducks Ltd.s songwriting process. Where their critically acclaimed 2021 debut Modern Fiction and 2019 EP Get Bleak were self-recorded and self-produced in a Toronto basement, here, they made an LP in Chicago with producer Dave Vettraino and some of their favorite musicians. These collaborators include Finoms Macie Stewart, Ratboys Julia Steiner and Marcus Nuccio, Dehds Jason Balla, Moontypes Margaret McCarthy, Lawns Rui De Magalhaes, Dummys Nathan ODell, and Patios Lindsey-Paige McCloy. Ducks Ltd.s touring drummer Jonathan Pappo also appears on the LP.The band first showed this collaborative streak on a 2023 covers EP, which featured guests like Mo Troper, Ratboys, Illuminati Hotties, and Jane Inc. that boasted renditions of songs by The Cure, The Feelies, and The Jesus and Mary Chain. Where those songs started as ideas on days off from tour, Harms Way is also a product of writing on the road while supporting acts like Nation of Language and Archers of Loaf. When we got signed, we had played maybe five or six shows ever, says McGreevy. After last year, its well in the hundreds. Those things change your perception of your own music and songwriting.This well-earned and road-tested confidence made the making of this LP their most intuitive and organic yet. Our relationship is built on trust and we dont let our egos come into the creative process in any way, says Lewis. We have this really great thing where every decision with the band is filtered through both of us. Here especially, we really figured out how to make something that truly sounds like us.
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