The Aristocrats' concept album is about an Antarctic duck fleeing a penguin policeman to NYC. Includes bonus BTS pro video/audio/USB & exclusive swag.

What happens when the world's most raucous rock/fusion instrumental power trio decides to make a concept album? You get Duck, the story of a web-footed Antarctic island native fleeing a penguin policeman to New York City...where considerable misadventure and danger await. The Aristocrats - Guthrie Govan/guitar, Bryan Beller/bass, Marco Minnemann/drums - have created a kaleidoscopic musical universe in which their evident virtuosity and inherent absurdity are employed in service of their most ambitious compositional and sonic production to date.

'We've always been writing with a storytelling aspect in mind, and our live shows always include our stories behind the songs,' says the band, speaking as one. 'But the stories had mainly been about us. Then Marco came into the studio with a song about a duck, and we were all looked at each other and said, 'What if all of stories for the songs on this album...happened to a duck? What's that story about?' And suddenly we had a concept album on our hands.'

The wildly diverse music follows the protagonist duck into a big city dance club ('Aristoclub') to being forcibly ejected from a dive bar ('Hey, Where's MY Drink Package') to a dark-riffed theme for his penguin pursuer ('Sgt. Rockhopper'), eventually concluding with the action-packed, Balkan-fusion finale 'This Is Not Scrotum', featuring violinist Rusanda Panfili (Hans Zimmer Live) as a rare Aristocrats album special guest.

The Duck Deluxe box includes the CD plus an exclusive USB 'Duck Drive,' containing pro-shot in-studio live video of 6 songs, hours of bonus audio (demos/alt mixes), BTS picture gallery, the 'Duck Pass' laminate, and more.

Mixed by Australian sonic guru Forrester Savell, and with original character artwork by Lance Myers (Space Jam), Duck is The Aristocrats' first new studio album in 5 years. And Guthrie Govan, Bryan Beller, and Marco Minnemann have taken their collective artistry to a new, mind-blowing - albeit ridiculous - level.

Bonus Materials

• USB Drive containing hours of bonus audio (alt mixes, demos, hi-res final audio)
• Exclusive in-studio live performance video
• “DUCK PASS” laminate and Aristocrats lanyard, and more

Track Listing

• Hey, Where’s MY Drink Package
• Aristoclub
• Sgt. Rockhoppe
• Sittin’ With A Duck On A Bay
• Here Come The Builders
• Muddle Through
• Slideshow
• And Then There Were Just Us/Duck’s End
• This Is Not Scrotum

Additional Details

Label: Boing Music

Genre: Progressive Rock

Run Time: 59:47 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 03/08/24

UPC: 796520198548