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Oct 2, 2015Their fourth and decidedly most accessible release to date.
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UncutOct 7, 2015Charmingly wistful and twitchily rhythmic pop songs. [Nov 2015, p.71]
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Oct 2, 2015RUFF is Born Ruffians’ strongest album to date. With gritty atmospherics that closely resemble their magnetic live show, the album is less polished and slick than 2013’s Birthmarks.
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Oct 5, 2015The most curious thing about RUFF is how its narrative seems to hint at a band running out of energy and inspiration, and yet the music itself would say otherwise.
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Oct 2, 2015They’ve landed on a fertile middle ground between their spark-and-buzz beginnings and those first wearier-but-wiser bends in life’s learning curve.
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MagnetOct 14, 2015There is a surprising amount of vitriol pent up--ever so politely--in these songs, and when that vitriol squeaks out into the universe, it is very genteel, very well-mannered vitriol. [No. 125, p.53]
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Oct 7, 2015RUFF will win no prizes for compositional elegance, but it’s never boring.
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Oct 2, 2015‘Their most mature work’ it may be, but listening to a shuffle of all their output to date outlines a noticeably poorer quarter.
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Oct 2, 2015If it's not the group's finest work, it has a genuine emotional purity and reaffirms Born Ruffians' place on the Canadian indie rock scene.
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Oct 2, 2015If they want to pursue content, chipper, marshmallow song structures, then that’s fine, but it’s nearly impossible not to think they do hope, deep down, to make something more than that. If so, RUFF doesn’t lead them any closer.