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Born Ruffians – What To Say

• 24th May 2010

Toronto's Born Ruffians and Warp Records are pleased to announce the release of What To Say, the first single from the band's forthcoming album, Say It. The single includes the title track along with a previously unreleased B-side “Plinky Plonky”, and will be available as a 7″ single and in digital format. What to Say is a soul -tinged yet tightly-wound affair, with watery synths that lurk in the background. The parts hang together, like a clattering machine bonded by a combination of kinetic energy and unshakeable confidence. Steve Hamelin, drummer for Born Ruffians describes the song as “one of those songs where we put it together out of a bunch of different ideas, and it really came together as a cohesive whole. Unlike some of the songs we’ve put together out of a bunch of ideas, and they sound like a bunch of different ideas.”

As for the album, Say It is due out on May 31st. If Born Ruffians' 2008 debut album Red, Yellow and Blue was the result of a talented and precocious gang of freshmen, their 2010 follow-up, Say It, would be the project they left school to finish – a declaration that they're smart and ambitious enough to make it on their own, and furthermore, that they're in it for the long haul. Taking two weeks to record the album, the band finds itself teaming up again with producer Rusty Santos. The Ruffians and co. holed up at Mississauga's Metalworks studio and loosed the reins on their ambitions, experimenting with Minimoogs and saxophones before eventually scaling much of it back in the mixing process. The result is a mature album, further amplifying the band's unique voice and sound.

'What To Say' Track list:
A1. What To Say
B1. Plinky Plonky

'Say It' track list
1. Oh Man
2. Retard Canard
3. Sole Brother
4. What To Say
5. The Ballad Of Moose Bruce
6. Higher & Higher
7. Come Back
8. Nova-Leigh
9. Blood, The Sun & Water
10. At Home Now