Quack Quack: "Jack of None"

Yorkshire trio Quack Quack’s bang-along space-pop and elephant bass is porn for people who hum. And I don’t just mean hum a casual ditty: I’m talking industrial-level humming here, loud enough to drown out a drum fan.

Opening with a stomach-lurching churn, “Jack of None”— one of two tracks on Soundcloud prior to the album last week—quickly sets about flapping upwards. There’s an earthy quality to the way Neil Turpin and Stuart Bannister mix their junk synths and unfancy drums, and as Richard Morris crashes his guitars and rights them with the equivalent of a rake-step, “Jack” starts flying like a section of the Air Force that’s been tarred, feathered, and catapulted. The bass really is something else: jutting and overbearing but a riot, roaring like all the dark parts of a zoo. As the tune stalls and gracefully flops down a staircase of Oriental pads, Bannister waggles the fuck out of his instrument’s fret board, turning his Air Force into a big V of geese. Which might have just gone from a Tinto Brass film to something more happy and with sunsets. Possibly starring Jeff Daniels.