really can't wait to hear this. does someone know where it'll first be available locally? particularly on vinyl? you can pre-order the LP from insound, but screw those guys and their 2 month wait on shipping.

Local Music News: from a 3 hour flight away, from a band that live in the northern hemisphere. More Fat Freddy's Drop and Shihad news please

Perth is a five-hour flight away...

just trying to get a rise outta ya, Jose

it worked

Can't wait for this. Anyone digging on the Lawrence Arabia album? Former Ruby Suns dude on Mistletone - pop heaven!

Lawrence Arabia is poo boring but Ruby Suns? I've been waiting for this for ages!

Both Lawrence Arabia albums are fantastic, but especially Chant Darling....

i was so freakin in love with ruby suns for a while last year. total bandcrush!!

Ruby Suns shits all over everything.

Sea Lion is pop (near-)perfection.

The selections they played at Camp were VERY promising. The downloadable edit of Cranberry is rad too, Dusty Fruit is already on a split 7-inch though in a different version (I think) and that rolls along beautifully.

Yes yes yes yes yes.

Ruby Suns shits all over everything.

Dirty!

About to listen to this. VERY excited.

where?! share?

This is a totally different beast to Sea Lion.

Gonna take a few listens.

its in the gmail

Sounds a bit like Junior Boys in some places.

shades of arthur russell on this opener.

its progression rather then reinvention, how kids fall/dusty fruit sound like sea lion still, and everything still sounds like ruby suns, just new and improved.

Dunno about improved, just different... and maybe equally as good. We'll see. Hard to improve on something as good as Sea Lion.

the ''improved'' part was just a bit sloganistic. Its good though.

this is gorgeous.

closet astrologer, two humans and olympics on pot are the clear stand-outs for me. and yeah, i reckon it's really different. obviously there are some similar flavours from sea lion (dusted fruit is the obvious track in that sea lion vein), but it's a much less immediate record, with much more detail and nuance. less hooky. the arthur russell thing is strong throughout! really different vocal approach. i think it'll be a real grower.

I don't really like how it's so reverby and dreamy compared to what I think are killer, tightly defined live sets. Same complaint with the last album really.

yeah good point. i wonder how this new stuff will work live. it seems like maybe the sampler heavy set-up mightn't work as well? someone said he's got two helpers on stage now maybe amee isn't one of them? anyway, hope they come back soon, even though they never really pack out venues here.

The first half of cranberry reminds me a little of the 'taking pills' bit in Take Pills. I can imagine tracks from this album live a lot more than the way that the sea lion album tracks compare to the live versions.. know what I mean? I mean, this sounds infinitely more like a conga dance party than the last album, which Ryan still managed to turn into a conga dance party when it was live. Ooh, I love Closet Astrologer (shades even of Toto's 'africa' in the verse part!)! This album is making me very happy!

Amee, or however you spell it, is such a great part of the Ruby Suns live thing. Hope she's a part of it though I guess it's possible she isn't, what with her shop in Auckland and stuff.

I can't stop listening to 'cinco'