The Ruby Suns
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Auckland, New Zealand (2004 – present)
California-born (and NZ citizen) McPhun took childhood trips to New Zealand and finally made Auckland home in 2003. Though he soon started playing with Kiwi indie darlings The Brunettes, he’d been making his own music for years—four-track bedroom stuff that mixed his faraway vocals with effects-laden guitar, synths, and all manner of field-recorded samples. With his own new band, Ryan McPhun and The Ruby Suns, McPhun recorded and released his first album for NZ label Lil’ Chief Records. By the time its follow-up, Sea Lion, was ready, the foreshortened Ruby Suns had gained a college following in New Zealand and toured Australia with The Shins and the UK with Field Music, among others. The album came out on Sub Pop in early 2008 and landed on various best-of lists that year.
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| FULL TRACK Cranberry | 3:36 |
| FULL TRACK Gibble (part 1) | 1:55 |
| FULL TRACK This Adventure Tour | 3:51 |
| FULL TRACK Give Advice | 3:34 |
| FULL TRACK Tui You | 2:14 |
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Fight Softly
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News
We're stuck in a blizzard in Wyoming so our Salt Lake City show is Cancelled. SORRY!!
6 Apr 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/therubysuns
- 'Cranberry' premiered today on Pitchfork 12 Jan 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/therubysuns
- We have a new record coming out in march, 2010 called "Fight Softly" 7 Nov 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/therubysuns
- Limited Edition split 7" w/ Extraperlo Available Now from Doble Vida Discos! 26 Jun 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/therubysuns
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