The Ruby Suns: “Cranberry” + “Closet Astrologer” + “Cinco” [MP3/VIDEO]

O motor principal do The Ruby Suns, Ryan McPhun, literalmente, viajou o mundo para chegar a Fight Softly, segundo álbum da banda para a Sub Pop, e terceiro em geral. McPhun possui (ou é possuído por ...) uma mente voraz musical e este novo álbum é o tipo de combinação cabeça de fiação de imagem de grande visão e detalhes suntuosos que vem somente de um artista com uma necessidade urgente para expressar tudo o que viu. E você pode dançar para ele! Fight Softly sai do caminho estabelecido pelo seu predecessor, Sea Lion, de 2008. Tematicamente, não é como os olhos arregalados ou alegres, escolhendo para além das relações encarada como nós passamos através do mundo - com o nosso meio, uns aos outros, nós mesmos. Sonoramente, ele permanece como beat-centric, embora estas batidas são deliciosamente artificiais - esticadas e comprimidas e distorcidas, irreconhecíveis. Melodias digitais, não com violões ou baixos depenados. Ao invés de um álbum de influências claramente estabelecidas, Fight Softly é uma síntese única e impenetrável, mais em si do que em qualquer outra coisa.

Duas canções já foram liberadass gratuitamente, “Cranberry” e “Closet Astrologer”, além do vídeo de “Cinco”. Por esses três exemplos, Fight Softly já valeria.

MP3: The Ruby Suns - “Cranberry”

MP3: The Ruby Suns - “Closet Astrologer”

MOV: The Ruby Suns - “Cinco”

RELEASE:

The Ruby Suns / Fight Softly
Released: March 2, 2010

The prime mover of The Ruby Suns, Ryan McPhun has literally traveled around the world to arrive at Fight Softly, the band’s 2nd album for Sub Pop, and 3rd overall. McPhun possesses (or is possessed by…) a voracious musical mind and this new album is the kind of head-spinning combination of big-picture vision and sumptuous detail that only comes from an artist with an urgent need to express all the stuff he’s seen. And you can dance to it! Fight Softly veers from the path set by its predecessor, the 2008 release Sea Lion. Thematically, it’s not as wide-eyed or lighthearted, picking apart the relationships faced as we pass through the world—-with our surroundings, each other, ourselves. Sonically, it remains as beat-centric, though these beats are deliciously artificial—-stretched and compacted and distorted beyond recognition. Melodies are scuzzy and digital, no guitars strummed or basses plucked. McPhun’s soulful upper-register croon, swallowed into the mix, replaces group chants and full-throated singalongs. Rather than an album of clearly-drawn influences, Fight Softly is a unique, inscrutable synthesis, more itself than anything else.

TRACKS:

Sun Lake Rinsed
Mingus and Pike
Cinco
Cranberry
Closet Astrologer
Haunted House
How Kids Fail
Dusty Fruit
Two Humans
Olympics on Pot

ORDER: Fight Softly

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The Ruby Suns - “Tane Mahuta” [MP3/VIDEO]

The Ruby Suns vem da Nova Zelândia e tem como principal membro, Ryan McPhun, atualmente e habilmente auxiliado por Amee Robinson e Taylor Imogen. Ele está lançando seu segundo álbum, Sea Lion traz sons exóticos, principalmente da África, formatados por uma confortável almofada de sintetizadores e samples. O disco sai via Sub Pop, que libera a tocante “Tane Mahuta”, cantada inteiramente na lingüa maori, em som e imagem.

MP3: The Ruby Suns - “Tane Mahuta”

MOV: The Ruby Suns - “Tane Mahuta”

RELEASE:

The Ruby Suns / Sea Lion
Released: March 4, 2008

New Zealand’s The Ruby Suns formed in Auckland in 2004, under the somewhat longer and inarguably more rhyming name Ryan McPhun and The Ruby Suns. The band is now shortly, sweetly and simply called The Ruby Suns, and principal Ruby Sun Ryan McPhun is currently and ably abetted by Amee Robinson and Imogen Taylor. Although New Zealand is somewhat isolated in the southern most part of the Pacific Ocean, Ryan has remained true to his buccaneer instinct. He and his Dictaphone (portable tape recorder) have ventured into the wilds of Africa, the ancient monasteries of Thailand, and the haunting landscapes that surround his everyday. Recorded almost entirely in McPhun’s basement, Sea Lion’s melodic musings found inspiration in the natural world and his travels within it. “Tane Mahuta,” sung entirely in Māori, is an indigenous-sounding ode to the great Waipoua forest near Auckland and “Adventure Tour” tells a tale of a memorable drive through New Zealand’s South Island. An African influence also exerts a strong presence in the album (“Kenya Dig It?” being the most obvious). Not only was he struck by the people (“Ole Rinka” is about a man he met in the Maasai Mara National Reserve), but he was also enamored of the music, especially Kenyan traditional music and modern day hip-hop. The depth and breadth of the Ruby Suns’ songs has, no surprise, grown dramatically since their 2005 self-titled debut. The epic Sea Lion was intended to be a world music album, but reverb and psychedelic pop crept in to create a unique mixture of exotic sounds, accomplished with an impressive array of instruments—from steel-string ukulele to djembe drums to pots and pans, all set upon a cozy cushion of synths and cassette samples.

TRACKS:

Blue Penguin
Oh, Mojave
Tane Mahuta
There Are Birds
It's Mwangi in Front of Me
Remember
Ole Rinka
Adventure Tour
Kenya Dig It?
Morning Sun

ORDER: Sea Lion

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CDs & MP3s:
• BuscaPé
• MercadoLivre
• Submarino
• Amazon
• CD Universe
• Insound
• 7digital