Over the past two decades, Ontario-based Born Ruffians have been on a constant journey of musical evolution. From indie rock to New Wave to their current incarnation of synth pop, the band manages to show off snatches of just about every musical influence on Beauty’s Pride, their latest LP.
The opening track, “Mean Time” is heavy on synth and electronic elements like drum samples, but the lyric digs into some deep intellectual themes for inspiration: “Mean Time is sort of autobiographical/speculative non-fiction inspired by Nabokov’s beautiful autobiography Speak, Memory,” says, singer/guitarist Luke Lalonde’s. “It’s about those two black voids, the before and the after, and all of the extraordinary moments in between.”…

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