Ducks Unlimited have returned with more of their jangliest of jangle-pop in new track ‘Gleaming Spires’, following recent List Pick ‘Anhedonia’. It’s a romantic shuffle of twangy guitars and agile rhythms, which is all about contentious relationships with our hometowns. As the Canadian four-piece’s frontman Tom Mcgreevy outlines: "It’s about the emotional energy that gets put into hating a place. I feel like the manic intensity with which I've heard friends sometimes shit on the town they live in is often pretty transparently an exercise in the displacement of issues in other parts of their lives.” The whole track is peppered with nostalgia, with playful hints to Johnny Marr and Belle and Sebastian in the pleasant punchiness and Mcgreevy’s lilting vocals. We can’t say that there are too many bands accomplishing this pristine vitality right now and so it’s no wonder that Ducks Unlimited are beginning to create a gentle stir. - Hannah Thacker