Friday, July 10, 2015

Ruen Brothers

Melodramatic indie rockabilly?  Somewhat hard to categorize.  The singer brings to mind a young Roy Orbison.  The music under him is twangy jangle.  They've only got one EP available on Spotify (2015's Point Dume), so I've given those four songs a good listen.  One of those four, "Summer Sun," is significantly more listened-to than the rest of their tracks, with just under 89k.
Evokes old rock, maybe late 50's or early 60's.  Not sure what I think about, even after 6 or so listens. Not sure why it is so confounding.  Another track that is not on their EP, but has over 100k views on YouTube, is called "Aces."
Same sound, but a little more rockin' and a little less melodramatics.  YouTube says this one came out in 2013, and the comments on YouTube make it sound like people are madly in love with these two brothers.  Spotify has no bio on them.  The ACL website only links to the Summer Sun video, with no bio.  No Wikipedia presence.  So I'm left looking at their own website, which mentions the following:

  • Rick Rubin produced their EP.
  • They name check Roy Orbison themselves, so I'm not terribly off the mark.
  • "Henry and Rupert adopted a rather unconventional writing process, testing demos by syncing them to trailers of Quentin Tarantino flicks."  WTF does that even mean?  Can I watch YouTube videos of this?  Apparently not, but I'd like to.
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith apparently plays the drums on this EP.
Yeah, the more I listen the more interested I am.  Not fully on board yet, but curious enough to maybe go check them out and see the live show.

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