Uncle, Duke & the Chief
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Track listing
- 1 Forget Me 3:36
- 2 Miss You 2:59
- 3 Side Tracked 3:49
- 4 Fade to Black 4:03
- 5 Love Too Soon 2:42
- 6 Spread So Thin 3:18
- 7 Tricky 3:09
- 8 Ring That Bell 2:26
- 9 Working Together 4:32
- Total length: 30:34
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Tinha desistido da banda depois do terceiro disco, mas meu eu de 16 anos não resistiu às palminhas e aos 'oh oh oh' quando escutou Forget Me, faixa de abertura, no final do ano passado. Ainda que fora de tempo e que não faço muito sentido em 2018, é de certa forma charmoso ver o grupo canadense voltando às origens desse indie rock festeiro depois de uma série de incursões frustradas no synthpop. Minha adolescência agradece.
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this band put their claws into me in 2008 with one of my favorite albums of all time & a minor misstep here or there aside, has not truly abandoned me since. i feel that while they don't do anything to reinvent any wheels, they have something unmistakably special to them [to me] & have been long underrated in the realm of indie rock...whatever that may mean in 2018.
so this is their folk album. i can tell there are bits where they try to incorporate outside influences from soul music or their more frantic pop-rock roots, but this is at heart a folk record. it works out for them and is quite a nice natural progression. i wish i could remove 'tricky' from everyone's copy of the record so nobody has to hear that lumineers-ass 'HEY' though.
other than that, very solid addition to their catalog. click for a good track by track breakdown from luke
RYB > Birthmarks > UDATC > Ruff > Say It
so this is their folk album. i can tell there are bits where they try to incorporate outside influences from soul music or their more frantic pop-rock roots, but this is at heart a folk record. it works out for them and is quite a nice natural progression. i wish i could remove 'tricky' from everyone's copy of the record so nobody has to hear that lumineers-ass 'HEY' though.
other than that, very solid addition to their catalog. click for a good track by track breakdown from luke
RYB > Birthmarks > UDATC > Ruff > Say It
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Born Ruffians are one of many indie rock bands that bubbled up in the mid-2000s. Hailing from small-town, Toronto-adjacent Midland, Ontario, the group draws heavy inspiration from bands like Modest Mouse and Arcade Fire.
The band went through a bit of a change a few years ago with their 2013 album Birthmarks when they parted ways with their original drummer Steve Hamelin and added a second guitarist. It led to a cleaner sound, one that was a little less rough around the edges.
With their fifth studio album Uncle, Duke & The Chief, Hamelin returns and the band shifts back to their grittier sound, recording as a trio.
Born Ruffians seem to produce their best material when that frantic nature comes out in their songwriting. Moments on Uncle, Duke & The Chief sound like drunken eulogizing, with lead vocalist Luke Lalonde rapidly shifting from desperate yelps to sing-along celebratory anthemic shouting.
Catchy choruses, jubilant guitars and an intense earnestness all shine through on the band’s new output, something that’s been lacking from the band’s output since their debut in 2008. The album’s songwriting is strong, strong enough to buoy it above the ocean of albums out there like it.
The band went through a bit of a change a few years ago with their 2013 album Birthmarks when they parted ways with their original drummer Steve Hamelin and added a second guitarist. It led to a cleaner sound, one that was a little less rough around the edges.
With their fifth studio album Uncle, Duke & The Chief, Hamelin returns and the band shifts back to their grittier sound, recording as a trio.
Born Ruffians seem to produce their best material when that frantic nature comes out in their songwriting. Moments on Uncle, Duke & The Chief sound like drunken eulogizing, with lead vocalist Luke Lalonde rapidly shifting from desperate yelps to sing-along celebratory anthemic shouting.
Catchy choruses, jubilant guitars and an intense earnestness all shine through on the band’s new output, something that’s been lacking from the band’s output since their debut in 2008. The album’s songwriting is strong, strong enough to buoy it above the ocean of albums out there like it.
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