Ducktails - The Cradle (2023)

The Cradle is a collection of ten recordings made in my apartment between March & May 2023. I was thinking about when I first fell in love with music in the late 1990s and played in my first emo / alt rock bands in high school in New Jersey. My friends were going to the Warped Tour, putting stickers on their guitars and dying their hair blue. It was a pretty cool time and I was introduced to so much energetic, catchy music. I saw Weezer, the Get Up Kids, and Ozma play at Roseland Ballroom in NYC on March 5th, 2001 and it changed my life. The crowd was so jam packed and excited that during the first song my glasses fell off and were trampled on and smashed. I couldn’t see the show at all but it was really cool. My Dad drove my friends and I back to New Jersey and thought I had gotten beat up when he saw me. This album is a departure from my previous work… I hope you enjoy it. - Matt Mondanile