The Ruby Suns

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Tane Mahuta 02:57 Tools
Kenya Dig It? 04:12 Tools
There Are Birds 04:13 Tools
Oh, Mojave 02:32 Tools
Cranberry 03:37 Tools
Blue Penguin 05:01 Tools
Ole Rinka 04:20 Tools
Remember 04:33 Tools
It's Mwangi In Front Of Me 03:37 Tools
Adventure Tour 03:51 Tools
Morning Sun 06:27 Tools
Closet Astrologer 05:36 Tools
Sun Lake Rinsed 03:49 Tools
Cinco 04:19 Tools
Mingus and Pike 04:38 Tools
In Real Life 04:08 Tools
Haunted House 02:39 Tools
Maasai Mara 03:07 Tools
Kingfisher Call Me 04:21 Tools
Dusty Fruit 00:30 Tools
Two Humans 04:56 Tools
How Kids Fail 05:22 Tools
Sleep In The Garden 01:44 Tools
Olympics On Pot 04:49 Tools
Trees Like Kids 01:12 Tools
Look Out SOS! 04:06 Tools
Function Of The Sun 01:11 Tools
Desert Of Pop 04:11 Tools
Criterion 04:43 Tools
Birthday On Mars 04:53 Tools
My Ten Years On Auto-Pilot 04:36 Tools
It's Hard To Let You Know 03:55 Tools
Trepidation Part Two 03:31 Tools
Trepidation Part One 01:21 Tools
Dramatikk 03:57 Tools
There's Soup At The End Of The Tunnel 02:59 Tools
Rush 04:23 Tools
Jump In 04:13 Tools
Boy 03:54 Tools
Futon Fortress 03:50 Tools
Starlight 04:28 Tools
Heart Attack 04:08 Tools
Palmitos Park (Version de The Ruby Suns) 04:08 Tools
Cranberry (Radio Edit) 03:37 Tools
Tilt of His Hat 03:37 Tools
Palmitos Park 03:52 Tools
The Ruby Suns 02:58 Tools
It’s Hard To Let You Know 03:54 Tools
Gibble 01:54 Tools
Palmitos Park (El Guincho Cover) 01:54 Tools
How Kids Fall 05:22 Tools
The Ruby Suns - Tane Mahuta 02:57 Tools
Papatuanuku 02:34 Tools
There’s Soup At The End Of The Tunnel 03:01 Tools
Give Advice 03:34 Tools
Martha My Dear 02:36 Tools
Pram Gang 03:57 Tools
The Ruby Suns - Cranberry 03:37 Tools
Don't Trust The Dirty Fruit 03:49 Tools
Oh, Mojave! 02:31 Tools
Waterslide 02:36 Tools
Tui You 02:14 Tools
Blankee 02:36 Tools
The Zipper 03:50 Tools
Khaki Kikoi 02:36 Tools
Birthday feat. Esau Mwamwaya (The Beatles cover) 04:01 Tools
Gatrapa 03:50 Tools
K Rd Woody 02:31 Tools
Palmitos Park [Version de The Ruby Suns] 03:50 Tools
Blåhvalene 01:55 Tools
King Cake 04:19 Tools
Arm Around You (Arthur Russell cover) (BL Rewind 2) 06:28 Tools
Oh, Mojave (Album) 02:31 Tools
You Can Talk 02:31 Tools
Birthday (Beatles Cover) 02:31 Tools
Remember (Album) 04:32 Tools
Ruby Suns - Kingfisher Call Me 02:31 Tools
Sister Brother 02:13 Tools
Gibble (part 1) 01:55 Tools
Ole Rinka (Album) 04:19 Tools
Ruby Suns - Tane Mahuta 04:19 Tools
Cranberry (Album) 04:52 Tools
Cinco (Album) 04:38 Tools
TheRubySuns_KingfisherCallMe 04:38 Tools
Two Humans (No Magnets Remix) 04:06 Tools
It´s hard to let you know 04:38 Tools
It’s Hard to Let You Know 01:22 Tools
Trepidation, Part One 01:21 Tools
Sister Brother - The Ruby Suns 02:15 Tools
Michi Ni Mayoimashita (Australian bonus track) 01:15 Tools
Birthday 03:57 Tools
Trepidation, Part Two 03:30 Tools
King Kake 00:30 Tools
Kingfisher 00:30 Tools
Cranberry. 03:30 Tools
It's Mwangi Infront of Me 00:30 Tools
There´s Soup At the End of The Tunnel 06:28 Tools
Gibble (Bonus Track) 00:30 Tools
There’s Soup At the End of The Tunnel 03:55 Tools
Arm Around You (Arthur Russell cover) 03:55 Tools
CallMe 00:30 Tools
The Ruby Suns - There Are Birds 00:30 Tools
Our Jukebox Run Is Over 04:38 Tools
I'd Like To Go Swimming 05:42 Tools
Blahvalene 01:15 Tools
Sister Brother (Australian bonus track) 02:13 Tools
Birthday feat. Esau Mwamwaya 04:01 Tools
Palmitos Park (El Guincho) 04:01 Tools
Gibble [short] 01:55 Tools
The Ruby Suns - Kenya Dig It 04:12 Tools
A Flux-Rad a Mixtape, Cranberry (Radio Edit) 04:12 Tools
Oh Majave 00:30 Tools
Michi Ni Mayoimashita 01:15 Tools
Don't Bring Me Down (ELO Cover) 00:30 Tools
Gibble [long] 14:11 Tools
PALMITOS PARK BO MIX MASTER CO 14:11 Tools
Arm Around You 06:28 Tools
There Are Birds (Justyn's :- Version) 06:28 Tools
My Ten Years On Autopilot 04:38 Tools
Even If You Try 03:00 Tools
This Adventure Tour Sample 06:28 Tools
Don't Touch The Dusty Fruit 06:17 Tools
Running Up That Hill 06:17 Tools
The Desert Of Pop 04:11 Tools
Mingus & Pike 04:38 Tools
Cinco (Chancha Vía Circuito remix) 04:11 Tools
Three Like Kids 04:38 Tools
The Adventure Tour 04:11 Tools
04 Cranberry 04:52 Tools
"Cranberry" 04:52 Tools
02 Mingus And Pike 04:38 Tools
Birthday ft Esau Mwamwaya 04:01 Tools
The Ruby Suns - Cinco (Chancha Vía Circuito remix) 04:01 Tools
Welcome to Daytrotter 00:30 Tools
Birthday (feat. Esau Mwamwaya) 04:01 Tools
05 Closet Astrologer 04:01 Tools
08 Dusty Fruit 04:01 Tools
Its Mwangi In Front Of Me 04:01 Tools
Palmitos Park [Version de The Ruby Suns] - The Ruby Suns 04:01 Tools
01 Sun Lake Rinsed 00:30 Tools
09 Two Humans 04:56 Tools
Gibble (part 2) 04:56 Tools
Sun Lake Rinsed [Album]/Album 04:56 Tools
06 Haunted House 02:39 Tools
Full Performance (Live on KEXP) 00:05 Tools
03 Cinco 02:39 Tools
10 Olympics On Pot 04:49 Tools
The Ruby Suns - Maasai Mara 04:49 Tools
Don't Touch The Fusty Fruit 04:49 Tools
iKenya Dig It? 04:17 Tools
Blalock's Indie/Rock Playlist: May (2010) - 13 - Closet Astrologer 00:05 Tools
In Real Life (Remix) 00:05 Tools
Tane Mahjta 00:05 Tools
Sun Like Rinsed 00:05 Tools
Mingus and Pike [Album]/Album 00:05 Tools
Haunted House [Album]/Album 00:05 Tools
Oh Mojave! 00:05 Tools
Drammatik 01:30 Tools
07 How Kids Fail 00:05 Tools
The Ruby Suns - Kingfisher Call Me 00:05 Tools
Cinqo 00:05 Tools
There Are Birds (Justyn's :-> Version) 00:30 Tools
Cinco (Chancha Via Circuito Remix) 05:16 Tools
Cinco [Album]/Album 05:16 Tools
Cranberry [Album]/Album 04:52 Tools
Closet Astrologer [Album]/Album 05:40 Tools
Ole Rinks 04:52 Tools
How Kids Fail [Album]/Album 05:22 Tools
Two Humans [Album]/Album 04:56 Tools
The Ruby Suns - Closet Astrologer 05:41 Tools
Kenya Dig It (Daytrotter Session) 05:41 Tools
Tane Mauhta 01:30 Tools
The Ruby Suns - Cinco 01:30 Tools
Sleep in the Garden/Oh, Mojave 01:30 Tools
Trepidation 01:30 Tools
Remember [Album] 01:30 Tools
Two Humans [Album] 01:30 Tools
Trepidation (Part Two) 01:30 Tools
06 The Ruby Suns - Morning Sun 01:30 Tools
Powerpop, Criterion 01:30 Tools
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The Ruby Suns are an indie/pop group from New Zealand. They formed in 2004 when Californian-born Ryan McPhun moved to Auckland and started playing in several bands such as The Brunettes and The Tokey Tones. 'Fight Softly' is the third album by New Zealand's pop masters The Ruby Suns. Ryan McPhun (their prime mover) has the kind of voracious musical mind that cites as equal influences '80s/'90s New Jack Swing and modern Angolan kuduro, Fleetwood Mac and Britney Spears, Brazilian tropicalia and Argentinean cumbia. He's the kind of diligent, meticulous soul that spends days hunched over a laptop in a tiny rented studio in Auckland, NZ just to perfect a sequenced drum track (mission accomplished). And Fight Softly 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! California-born (and NZ citizen) McPhun took childhood trips to New Zealand and finally made Auckland home in 2003. Though he soon started playing with Kiwi indie darlings The Brunettes, he'd been making his own music for years—four-track bedroom stuff that mixed his faraway vocals with effects-laden guitar, synths, and all manner of field-recorded samples. With his own new band, Ryan McPhun and The Ruby Suns, McPhun recorded and released his first album for NZ label Lil' Chief Records. By the time its follow-up, Sea Lion, was ready, the foreshortened Ruby Suns had gained a college following in New Zealand and toured Australia with The Shins and the UK with Field Music, among others. The album came out on Sub Pop in early 2008 and landed on various best-of lists that year. And for a few summer months The Ruby Suns landed in Seattle. There they played Sub Pop's not-so-humble 20th anniversary festival and began work on Fight Softly. "Mingus and Pike" is about their temporary Victorian abode and its happy-go-lucky pit bull mascot Mingus; “Cranberry” captures a day trip to Cranberry Lake, a dream of a swimming-hole 90 minutes from Seattle on Fidalgo Island. The former is beat-buzzed bedroom R&B swathed in reverb while the latter is part tequila-drunk marching band, part Eastern Bloc candy rave. In the spring of '09, The Ruby Suns took a whirlwind tour of Europe that included 10 days at a friend's spread outside Szeged, Hungary. McPhun and friends Bevan Smith (Signer, Aspen, Skallander) and Matthew Mitchell (Skallander, Muriel Tsains) spent their time devouring veggie pizzas and jamming, improv-style, in an old farmhouse. These sessions didn't make it to Fight Softly as-is but were a springboard into new ideas McPhun brought back to his Auckland studio. Like "Closet Astrologer," a song that started in Hungary and concluded, vaporous and Vangelis-like, in New Zealand. Or "How Kids Fail," a multi-movement epic that sounds like a post-techno hymn and nods to How Children Fail, John Holt's groundbreaking book on the general out-of-touch-ness of the public education system. "Haunted House" bounces on a pitch-shifted vocal sample and bubbly synth line, simultaneously lush and minimal. "Cinco" and "Dusty Fruit" share a similar digital-tropical soul. This is where Fight Softly veers from the path set by its predecessor. 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, not many 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. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.