Searows

Alec Duckart (born March 2, 2000), known professionally as Searows, is an American singer and songwriter. Born in Lexington, Kentucky and raised in Portland, Oregon, he has released two studio albums, Guard Dog and Death in the Business of Whaling (2026).

Early life Duckart was born in Lexington, Kentucky, but was raised in Portland, Oregon, where he currently resides. Growing up in Portland, his parents played for him artists including "Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver, Iron & Wine, the Decemberists and people who also write about Oregon and the Pacific Northwest." He gained an appreciation for the "melancholic pleasure" of sad music at age nine.

He has been playing guitar since he was in the 7th grade, at around age 11 or 12. During this time, he began posting his songs to SoundCloud. He said that learning songs from the Juno soundtrack inspired him to learn numerous songs of his favorite musicians, before pursuing his own songwriting in earnest beginning in high school.

Duckart did not specify when he began working on his debut album, Guard Dog, except to say he had worked on it "for so long" that he had a "completely different perspective on a lot of the experiences" and would have likely "probably would’ve made a different album" upon its release. before being self-released on 30 September 2022. Duckart wrote, produced, recorded, and mixed the album himself using GarageBand. The album received significant success and positive reception thanks, in part, to his TikTok following.

While touring with Abrams on her 2023 Good Riddance Tour, 2023 Duckart was the first artist signed to Matt Maltese's newly-founded record label, Last Recordings On Earth. He said he did not expect to be signed by Maltese following their tour together one year prior, but speculated it was because of the similar "bleakness" in their styles.

Although hesitant to return to the same emotions as when he wrote Guard Dog, Duckart said it is "human nature" to write about the same feelings as they "don't go away." This is what Duckart says leads him to utilize repetition in his works. The single "Funny" was released shortly after, on 17 October. The 6-track EP End Of The World was released on November 10 of the same year. A music video for the title track was released a month later, on 10 December 2023.

2024–Present: flush and Death in the Business of Whaling On 19 March 2024, Duckart announced that he would be going on his first headline tour around the United States between 12 June and 30 June 2024. On the heels of his first tour, having selling tickets for his second, Shortly following the end of the tour, on 25 September 2024, Duckart released "toothache," which Duckart said described the experience of letting go "the need to make other people feel comfortable at the cost of your own dignity and personhood." During the recording process, Duckart was listening to a lot of Alex G, drawing inspiration from his instrumentation using the banjo and "heavy guitars." On October 2, Duckart released the single "Dearly Missed," including a music video, and announced his sophomore album, Death in the Business of Whaling. Duckart said that "Dearly Missed" was his contribution to the "good for her" horror genre, speaking particularly to society's alienation of marginalized groups, including Duckart. The album's second single "Photograph of a Cyclone" was released alongside a music video on November 12. Duckart released the album's third single, "Dirt," on 7 January 2026 alongside a black and white music video directed by Karlee Boon and Marlowe Ostara. Duckart said the song was "about [the] inevitability" of life being "finite," which inspired the song's title, "Dirt," to which "we all inevitably return." Less than a week before the release of the album, Duckart released the fourth single "In Violet" on 19 January. Death in the Business of Whaling was then released on 23 January, The album's name hails from Herman Melville's Moby Dick, which further inspired the cover, track names, and instrumentation on the album. Duckart said the album deals with "more broad" and abstract themes than his older music, which was more of a "literal diary entry of my own thoughts." He engages with these concepts through heavy use of the second person in the lyrics, much like the songwriting of Fiona Apple and Sufjan Stevens.

Duckart's musical style has been likened to Phoebe Bridgers,

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