BAKER CITY — Tom McGreevy and Evan Lewis both played in bands before connecting to form Toronto-based Ducks Ltd.

“We’ve both liked making music since we were teenagers,” McGreevy said. “We’ve both been in the indie-rock trenches for some time.”

The band is a duo — Australian lead guitarist Lewis, and U.K.-born and U.S.-raised singer, bassist and rhythm guitarist McGreevy.

Originally named Ducks Unlimited, they renamed the band to Ducks Ltd. to avoid any trademark issues with the organization that conserves wetlands and grasslands to benefit waterfowl and other wildlife.

Their first EP, titled “Get Bleak,” was self-recorded and self-produced in a basement.

“We learned a lot about how to make records,” McGreevy said.

They released that at the end of 2019 — and then had quite a bit of time to work on their music as performance spaces shut down due to the pandemic.

“A long stretch of time to figure out what we were doing,” McGreevy said.

They released their first full-length album, “Modern Fiction,” in October 2021, and in 2022 they started touring their music.

“We’ve been on tour pretty consistently ever since,” he said.

This week they played at Boise’s Treefort Music Festival, and on Saturday, March 29, they will arrive in Baker City to play at Churchill School, 3451 Broadway St.

Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance at churchillbaker.com or $25 at the door.

Ducks Ltd. is still touring their most recent record, “Harm’s Way,” which was released in February 2024.

“They’re songs about struggling,” McGreevy said in an album release. “About watching people I care for suffer, and trying to figure out how to be there for them. And about the strain of living in the world when it feels like it’s ready to collapse.”

The album’s songs were composed while the band was on tour supporting Nation of Language, Illuminati Hotties and Archers of Loaf.

“Harm’s Way” was “half self-produced,” McGreevy said, and finished in Chicago with producer Dave Vettraino. It was released by Carpark Records.

The album features “a marquee cast of Windy City collaborators to round out the tracks,” according to a press release. Those collaborators include Finom’s Macie Stewart, Ratboys’ Julia Steiner and Marcus Nuccio, Dehd’s Jason Balla, Moontype’s Margaret McCarthy, Lawn’s Rui De Magalhaes, Dummy’s Nathan O’Dell and Patio’s Lindsey-Paige McCloy. Ducks Ltd.’s touring drummer Jonathan Pappo also appears on the LP.

The opening act

The Bug Club, a Welsh indie rock band, will open the show on March 29.

Initially comprising the songwriting core of Sam Willmett (vocals/guitar) and Tilly Harris (vocals/bass) with Dan Matthew (drums), The Bug Club started playing together in 2016. They were signed by UK label Bingo Records in the fall of 2020, and released their first single, “We Don’t Need Room for Lovin’,” in February 2021, followed by the EP “Launching Moondream One,” which “quickly established The Bug Club as the tongue-in-cheek and live- focused antidote to the previous year’s penned-in pandemic drudgery,” according to a press release.

They’ve now released 10 singles, two albums, two EPs and assorted other material, and play more than 200 shows a year. Their last album, “On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System,” was released in 2024 by Sub Pop.

Now, LP number four — “Very Human Features” — will arrive June 13 and is described as “An assured and endlessly witty whirlwind of literary, self-referential, good-humoured rock ‘n’ roll.”