{"id":38826,"date":"2015-10-22T17:58:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T22:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=38826"},"modified":"2015-11-11T11:38:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T17:38:03","slug":"born-ruffians-ruff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/10\/22\/born-ruffians-ruff\/","title":{"rendered":"Born Ruffians: Ruff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Born-Ruffians.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-38827 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Born-Ruffians.jpg\" alt=\"Born Ruffians\" width=\"264\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Born-Ruffians.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Born-Ruffians-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Born-Ruffians-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a>Toronto four-piece indie-rock group Born Ruffians pick up where they left off on their new album<em>. <\/em>Formed in 2004, <em>Ruff <\/em>is the fifth studio album in the band\u2019s discography along with two EPs. <em>Ruff <\/em>is very much within the same vein as its previous releases while still featuring new and noteworthy material.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t Live Up\u201d kicks off the album with sounds familiar to the ears of Born Ruffians fans. A style akin to past albums like <em>Red Yellow &amp; Blue <\/em>or <em>Say It<\/em>. Guitarist and singer Luke LaLonde reaches new heights on \u201cYawn Years\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Worry Now\u201d is Born Ruffians&#8217; dream-pop effort of the album. LaLonde and the band are apathetic on \u201cWhen Things Get Pointless I Roll Away\u201d as he sings \u201cI feel like it\u2019s nice to think the world falls apart when I go to sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe Made It\u201d is one of the best tracks on the album and really resonates with the Ruffian repertoire as LaLonde sings \u201cOne day I\u2019m going to make it, fake it until I make it.\u201d This record is cohesive and an easy listen from start to finish. Reverberated and phased guitar bring <em>Ruff <\/em>to a close on \u201cShade To Shade\u201d featuring LaLonde\u2019s belted, ethereal vocals one last time. The Born Ruffians might\u2019ve grown up a bit with this mellow, mature release but <em>Ruff <\/em>fits their identity to a tee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended If You Like: Grizzly Bear, Franz Ferdinand, Tokyo Police Club, Dodos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Tracks: 9 (We Made It), 3 (Yawn Years), 1 (Don\u2019t Live Up), 5 (When Things Get Pointless I Roll Away)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do Not Play: 6 (&amp; On &amp; On &amp; On), 7 (F*** Feelings), 8 ((Eat S***) We Made It)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by Harrison Hipp on 10\/22\/15<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Born Ruffians might\u2019ve grown up a bit with this mellow, mature release but Ruff fits their identity to a tee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1602,"featured_media":38827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3235,3230,181],"tags":[3783,2639,3784],"class_list":["post-38826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","category-rock-rotation","tag-born-ruffians","tag-harrison-hipp","tag-ruff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Born-Ruffians.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}