Lets get this out of the way first: I LOVE THE RUBY SUNS. “Oh Mojave” is seriously my #1 good mood song of the year and I listen to “Sea Lion” from start to finish all the time. I don’t even listen to myself from start to finish all the time.

The Ruby Suns are ALSO playing The Cat this Saturday which, in my book, is reason enough for celebration. We’ve reviewed them live before (which is where the photos below are from), when they played with Le Loup and Bellman Barker a few months back and Aaron perfectly described the effect they had on the audience:

….The Suns worked digital drum loops, 50’s doo-wop harmonies, and fuzzy chugging basslines, along with inescapably melodic key-and-guitar atmospherics into a Polynesian-inspired polyrhythmic paradise. Starting off with the danceable “There are Birds,” the trio reminded you of contemporaries like Panda Bear, if only Panda Bear got really into Afro-National music and sang about Elephants eating leaves. “Kenya Dig It?” evoked a spirit something akin to Phil Spector rolling around in an unkempt backyard jungle of long weeds and sunflowers.

With all members of the band rotating instruments throughout the set, I was impressed with their ability to round out a full and nuanced sound, fully incorporating flutes and cowbells, with so little personnel-wise. As they finished with an ode to a tree, “Tane Mahuta,” I looked down the front row of hopping and hand-clapping attendees, and couldn’t see a frown on anyone’s face. Apparently they most certainly could dig it.

ANYHOO…

Needless to say, I was totally stoked to get to talk to Ryan McPhun while he and Amee Robinson were driving from Jacksonville to US yesterday, but the connection was bad, my recorder sort of sucks these days and I overslept so this is going to take a while. And as such, we are going to try something new: AN INTERVIEW IN INSTALLMENTS: as you check in through the day there will be more witty banter transcribed and by the end of the day, it should all make sense.
So read now, then read some more or read later and read it all. (bad rhyming comes in a package with sleep deprivation)

Hey Ryan!
Hi. Sorry if the connection is bad, I am driving and …

Its cool, I am out on the street as well, and someone is playing a trumpet next to me so we have a perfect storm of disruptions on our hands.
Haha, great.

So tell me, where were you before you were in the car?
We played some Florida shows, in Jacksonville and in Orlando.

How was that? I hear playing an indie rock show in Florida can be kind of surreal
It was cool. Both of those were “all ages” shows which means: lots of kids. Which means: lots of enthusiasm.

Well, there is plenty to be enthusiastic about when it comes to a Ruby Suns show…can we expect masks again?
It really depends on how we feel that day.

Do you guys still rotate around instruments during the live show like you did when you last played DC?

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