THE ARISTOCRATS GO QUACKERS ON THEIR FIFTH ALBUM

Duck comes with a twist.

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The Aristocrats’ fifth album, Duck, might be conceptual, but bassist Bryan Beller warns fans that it isn’t your archetypal affair. “This is an Aristocrats concept album,” he says with a smile. “It’s not The Wall; it’s about a cartoon duck that gets kicked off an Antarctic island by a malevolent police penguin and then travels the world!” Out on February 16 via Boing Music, the bassist explains its story was a happy accident: “[Drummer] Marco Minnemann wrote a song called Sitting With A Duck On A Bay, which had a 70s R&B vibe to it, but we also had a more complex song with a parenthetical title of Duck’s End. Then we thought, ‘Are we writing an album with a story here?’” Having released their first three albums in consistent…

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