Born Ruffians - Born Ruffians - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

RUFF, the newest album from Born Ruffians, is an exploration into self and aesthetics that you will want to tag along for. It's a collection of scrubbed raw anthems that are defiantly optimistic, imaginatively arranged and performed with a sense of bloodlust. In contrast to previous records from this Canada-based quartet, RUFF is simultaneously a return to form and a departure from convention. It is at once a culmination and a disassembly of the band's history and dynamics. RUFF took shape from a singular focus on the work itself, and exploration into the relation of candor, immediacy and art. InchWe had one overarching goal this time out to make the album we wanted to make. We took nothing else into consideration,Inch says bassist Mitch Derosier. Over four albums, Born Ruffians have developed a signature aesthetic that encompasses tightly wound, trapezoidal songs frothing over with hooks and wryly cathartic lyrics. The group has garnered favorable comparisons to such quirky pop infiltrators as the Talking Heads, The Pixies and The Strokes. Onstage, the band is arousing and assaulting, coming off somewhere between a riot and a soul revue. Born Ruffians are Luke Lalonde (guitar/vocals), Mitch Derosier (bass), Andy Lloyd (guitar/keyboard) and Adam Hindle (drums). RUFF was written in ebbs and flows the origin of some tracks stretch back to 2013 and others came together in a matter of days, or in a single band practice. Jeff McMurrich (Jennifer Castle, The Constantines, Fucked Up) recorded RUFF in just three weeks in Toronto. The band's trusted friend Rusty Santos (Animal Collective, Eric Copeland, Owen Pallett) - who produced their acclaimed album, Red, Yellow & Blue, and it's follow up, Say It - mixed RUFF in New York. RUFF stands as a poignant marriage of form, content and process that is without a doubt Born Ruffians' most focused and mature work

Deluxe CD + Blu-Ray edition. XTC's classic album Drums & Wires is presented in this 2025 CD/Blu-ray Audio set, along with a number of additional tracks in Dolby Atmos, mixed & produced by Steven Wilson. One of the gems of the post-punk era, replete with the sort of musical diversity that would have been unimaginable two years earlier, Swindon's finest, XTC, produced an early classic album with their third , the Steve Lillywhite produced Drums and Wires. Both Andy Partridge & Colin Moulding were growing in confidence as songwriters - this album did much to further their reputation for peerless post-punk pop tunes. But it was also Steve Lillywhite & engineer Hugh Padgham's ability to give appropriate studio support & recording expertise to the more expansive pieces such as InchRoads Girdle The GlobeInch & InchComplicated GameInch that helped to bring a new level of maturity to the overall feel of the . Issued at the start of September, Drums and Wires entered the UK Albums Chart where it remained for a total of seven weeks, accompanied by another first for the band, a Top 20 UK (& international) hit single in album lead track InchMaking Plans for NigelInch. The Blu-Ray edition also includes the DJM mixes - songs earmarked as potential single releases & a number of full demo sessions tracking the complete evolution of the album - a virtual boxed set on a single Blu-Ray disc. All of the stereo material is presented in 24/96 LPCM stereo while the 5.1 material appears in DTS-HD MA audio . For anyone fortunate enough to be new to the album, yes, pop music really was this good at one point in time. It was even reasonably popular.

2020 . Critically acclaimed indie rock mainstays Born Ruffians return with their sixth studio album, Juice, on Yep Roc Records. Juice finds the band moving into a more confident and polished direction, bringing to mind 1970s songwriting prowess with layered, and mature production sensibilities. The album was produced by Graham Walsh, known for his work with Alvvays, !!! (Chk Chk Chk), and Holy F*ck.