Everyone’s favourite chart-topping house duo Duck Sauce are back, baby. ‘Smiley Face’ is their first single in six years and was released on Friday January 31.
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Duck Sauce comprises A-Trak and Armand Van Helden. After the release their successful debut album ‘Quack’ in 2014, featuring the single ‘Barbra Streisand’, there has been radio silence from Duck Sauce. Both A-Trak and Van Helden have been pursuing their solo careers in the break.
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‘Smiley Face’ is entirely sunshiney house; they seem intent on achieving the directive the repeated sample that demands that you ‘make someone feel happy’.
Duck Sauce will play Coachella this April.
Listen to ‘Smiley Face’ below.
Jemima Skala is Mixmag’s Weekend Editor. Follow her on Twitter
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