Blog: Faronheit

To talk about the new Ruby Suns album "Fight Softly," one must first breach the topic of Animal Collective and their year's best masterpiece "Merriweather Post Pavilion" from 2009. The reason why is simple - it seems to me that The Ruby Suns are intent on crafting their new album from nearly the same cloth that Animal Collective did - for better or worse. If you're going to actively try and copy such a critically acclaimed artist, the comparison is either going to make or break you, and that largely depends on if you're actually up to the lofty standards [...]

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