“Four-piece, no-nonsense rock and roll” is a fitting descriptor for Mallards. Simon Thill plays rhythm guitar and takes the vocal helm, Ryan Nelson hits the skins, Alex Chocholousek plays bass, and Andy Lipke supplies energetic lead guitar, including some nice slide work. Unlike their avian moniker, these practitioners of “garagicana” stay north for the winter, hunker down and stay warm tapping into 1960s and ’70s rock roots, a bit of American twang, and their own brand of duckiness. An EP and a 7-song digital album are available on Bandcamp.