The Ruby Suns
Sea Lion
the prime mover of the ruby suns ryan mcphun has literally traveled around the world to arrive at 'fight softly' the band's third album for memphis industries mcphun possesses or is possessed by a voracious musical mind and this new album is the kind of headspinning combination of bigpicture 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 'fight softly' veers from the path set by its predecessor the 2008 release 'sea lion' thematically it's not as wideeyed or lighthearted picking apart the relationships faced as we pass through the world with our surroundings each other ourselves sonically it remains as beatcentric though these beats are deliciously artificial stretched and compacted and distorted beyond recognition melodies are scuzzy and digital no guitars strummed or basses plucked mcphun's soulful upperregister croon swallowed into the mix replaces group chants and fullthroated singalongs rather than an album of clearlydrawn influences fight softly is a unique inscrutable synthesis more itself than anything else
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