The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
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Artist: The Ruby SunsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-03-04
Music Label: Sub Pop
Soundtracks:
- 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
Free Music Notes for Sea Lion
Free Music Review: Solid album from up and coming psychedelic indie band.
Hit: 4 Stars
I downloaded this album in my recent venture to become more aware of this year's (2008) Pitchfork Music Festival (if you've never been... it's AMAZING). Along with Fleet Foxes, The Dodos, and A Hawk and a Hacksaw, this album was one of my favorite finds. This band makes psychadelic rock that is at times beautiful and haunting and at other times jubulent and fun.
The opening "Blue Penguin" is one of the quiet ones, based mostly on an eerie guitar melody with lots of twiddly psychedelic effects in the background. The next two songs, "Oh Mojave" and "Tane Mahuta" are very latin influenced and remind me quite a bit of the excellent Os Mutantes. These songs are a lot of fun and I feel would go over very well at a party. You can't help but dance to them. The next two songs return to the quiet ambient side of things. I find these two songs to be the low point of the album.
However, the next song "Remember" is stunningly beautiful. Amazing melodies and beautiful arrangement and textures. The horn part in the middle is particularly nice. This song is certainly a highlight. The album really picks up with this song and the next three songs are all top notch especially "Kenya Dig It?". This song just rocks. It has such a great drum beat.
The last song on the album, "Morning Sun" is one of the weirdest. The first half is dreamy and ambient, and then all of a sudden it switches to this trancy electro-pop feel, very remenicent of recent Of Montreal. Certainly an odd song especially given that nothing else is vaguely remenicent of that feel on anywhere else on the album.
Overall, this is a great album. I will say one of my main criticisms is the running order of the album. I think they could have resequenced the tracks so that two songs with a similar feel weren't back to back. The two Latin tracks (which I might add are the only two songs that have that style) are back to back, but nothing else on the album sounds like that. This is just a small complaint. If fun and dreamy psychedelic pop is your thing, you'd be doing yourself a solid by checking out this album.
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The melodic musings of "Sea Lion" found inspiration in the natural world and Ryan McPhun's travels with in it. With a Dictaphone, he ventured into the wilds of Africa, the ancient monasteries of Thailand, and the haunting landscapes of New Zealand that surround his everyday. It 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.The melodic musings of "Sea Lion" found inspiration in the natural world and Ryan McPhun's travels with in it. With a Dictaphone, he ventured into the wilds of Africa, the ancient monasteries of Thailand, and the haunting landscapes of New Zealand that surround his everyday. It 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.
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