Ruff Demoz
Tracklist
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Child O' God free download | 3:38 | 14 | ||
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White Tigers free download | 4:10 | 13 | ||
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The Lowest Star free download | 3:39 | 11 | ||
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Resist the Hypnotist free download | 3:46 | 13 | ||
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A Thousand Hearts free download | 2:44 | 12 | ||
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Devastatingly In Love free download | 3:43 | 9 | ||
| 7 |
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Ladies of the Lake free download | 4:28 | 10 | ||
| 8 |
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Noyz Boi free download | 4:08 | 11 | ||
| 9 |
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Happy Hour free download | 3:22 | 9 | ||
| 10 |
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Don't Shoot Out the Lights free download | 2:40 | 12 | ||
| 11 |
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The Next Time I Fall free download | 4:51 | 9 | ||
| 12 |
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Dancing Feet free download | 3:32 | 25 |
About this album
“We are a part of a rhythm nation.”
“It’s no great secret that lo-fi is becoming at the end of the decade what dance-punk revivalism was in the early 00’s: it’s ubiquitous, inescapable, and a seemingly free ride to the hyperbole-studded avenues of critical fawnery. No Age’s 2008 snooze parade Nouns, in particular, demonstrated how easily substance can take a backseat to style and still manage to hold the feelers of the blogosphere in an irrepressible vice grip.
That being said, Ruff Demoz — the first collection proper from SiA-approved, one-man powerhouse Death Knelly — is not that kind of record. On one level, these songs are the “rough demos” they claim to be; still, there’s a sort of rag-tag cohesiveness here that keeps the tracks from feeling less like a haphazard throw-some-shit-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks effort, and more like a collection that — while it may not favor the sort of narrative strategy of A leading to B, then B to C and so on — is irrevocably indebted to the tightly focused vision of its maker.
Considering the tongue-in-cheek didacticism of “White Tigers,” or the lyrical intimacy of “Ladies of the Lake,” Ruff Demoz is a refreshing example of an artist doing something for his medium, rather than following the example of the slew of bratty lo-fi bloghounds whose recording quality is their only discernible claim to relevance. More than charm, which this collection has in strides, it’s got soul.
“It’s no great secret that lo-fi is becoming at the end of the decade what dance-punk revivalism was in the early 00’s: it’s ubiquitous, inescapable, and a seemingly free ride to the hyperbole-studded avenues of critical fawnery. No Age’s 2008 snooze parade Nouns, in particular, demonstrated how easily substance can take a backseat to style and still manage to hold the feelers of the blogosphere in an irrepressible vice grip.
That being said, Ruff Demoz — the first collection proper from SiA-approved, one-man powerhouse Death Knelly — is not that kind of record. On one level, these songs are the “rough demos” they claim to be; still, there’s a sort of rag-tag cohesiveness here that keeps the tracks from feeling less like a haphazard throw-some-shit-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks effort, and more like a collection that — while it may not favor the sort of narrative strategy of A leading to B, then B to C and so on — is irrevocably indebted to the tightly focused vision of its maker.
Considering the tongue-in-cheek didacticism of “White Tigers,” or the lyrical intimacy of “Ladies of the Lake,” Ruff Demoz is a refreshing example of an artist doing something for his medium, rather than following the example of the slew of bratty lo-fi bloghounds whose recording quality is their only discernible claim to relevance. More than charm, which this collection has in strides, it’s got soul.
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Recent Activity
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Jd_who added Ruff Demoz to Jd_who’s library. July 2009
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chaserrrr updated the wiki page for Ruff Demoz. (diff) May 2009
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chaserrrr updated the wiki page for Ruff Demoz. (diff) May 2009
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chaserrrr created the wiki page for Ruff Demoz. May 2009
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chaserrrr uploaded deathsally to Ruff Demoz’s images. April 2009
