Warm, fun, chill. There's something sweet and nostalgic about Canadian band Born Ruffians. (can you guys explain that name to me please? I keep wanting to type THE Ruffians.) They're a little Bob Dylan, a little Vampire Weekend, a little drippy popsicle eaitng on the front porch, a little hopeless romantic. It's sort of your basic indie rock, but they've clearly blended the folk, electric, indie thing together to get this rocky, folkish (stress on ish), lullaby thing; I like it. Vocals from singer Luke LaLonde are pretty unique in a Ezra Koenig/Nathan Willett sort of way. The rawness of it brings me back to when "indie" music was first hatching out of its shell and was real DIY.
These crazy Canucks have been around since 2004ish (but you probably wouldn't know that, they're from, ahem, Canada) and released their first EP in 2006. They've toured with some pretty big name bands so I'm surprised we haven't heard more from them (sigh, Canadians). At one point they did a stop in Seattle to play in studio for KEXP and covered Grizzly Bear's, Knife which would be cool to hear if KEXP had that performance in their audio archive. But they don't. You'll probably have to hear it for yourself live. Looks like they'll be touring on their own this summer, playing at The Vera Project on June 7th.
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