With their sophomore album Sea Lion, New Zealand’s The Ruby Suns have left behind the simple Beach Boys-inspired psychedelia of their self-titled debut and vaulted into the 2000s.Released in January, Sea Lion is a carefully crafted album dense with energetic percussion, reverb-doused atmospherics, big vocals, and healthy doses of 1980s nostalgia.
They certainly aren’t the first band to try and capture the sunny vibes of summer through a psych-pop lens, but it’s rarely been done with such beauty and pathos.
(2008 Oct / Tobias Kahn)
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