Red, Yellow & Blue

First full-length by the herky-jerky indie rock trio from Toronto expands outward from their debut EP, not so much a premeditated step toward maturity as an exploration of different shades of the young-man's blues.

For its first full-length, Canadian band Born Ruffians deliberately avoided fleshing out what could've been a simple Strokes rip-off by exploring simpler sounds with producer Rusty Santos (Grizzly Bear, Panda Bear, possibly other bears). After the title track's faux-martial intro, "Barnacle Goose" offers the first…

This sophomore effort from the Canadian scruff-rockers kicks off like some improbable mix of <b>This Town Needs Guns</b> and <b>Art Brut</b>.

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