A Duck’s Water Off My Back by Champion Trees

For fans of Mount Eerie, Black Country, New Road, Sun Kil Moon, classic era singer-songwriter, and long, aimless walks through your neighborhood, A Duck’s Water Off My Back by Champion Trees grapples with the powerless pessimism of generation z through some of the most beautiful poetry we’ve heard in independent music all year. Through varying degrees of electric rock instrumentation and acoustic elements like horns and strings, Champion Trees adorn their songs with a precise, minimal touch to draw us into their intimate lyrical delivery. Each song introduces a vivid scene of stalemate, of longing for a way out but simultaneously disbelieving in any possible alternative, the sort of response to capitalist realism which blankets the current generation in a defeatist haze. Our desires limit in scope until they reach a laughable level of quaint short-sightedness, a desperate longing for coziness at the very least as geopolitical collapse closes in on all sides.