I just added Ruby Isle’s debut disk Night Shot - featuring guest vocals by Tay “Chocolate Rain” Zonday and Amy “I Am the World Trade Center” Dykes! - to the Kindercore Shop.
Pick up a copy today!!

The record kills, but don’t take my word for it. Check out this review in the Flagpole:

“Call this genre Bronski Beat You Up. Ruby Isle’s marvelous blend of disco, pop and riffy cock-rock was hinted at in their earlier ventures into recorded music, including the elbo.ws project (in which the duo covered the number-one song on the popular music blog aggregator over a series of weeks - the EP is included here too, but, while the covers of songs by Dan Bejar, M.I.A., and Stephen Malkmus are great, they pale in comparison to the original works).

However, the debut album, Night Shot, pulses it all together into a record that contains more moments of pure joy than anything else this year. Hyperbole? Possibly, but show me another record that can make you pump your fist with little to no irony. The title song crackles with electricity from its opening, then incorporates the extreme silliness that is the deep, weird voice of “Chocolate Rain”’s Tay Zonday with seemingly effortless style.

Liking something just because it’s stupid is a waste of time, but glee in overkill is another thing entirely. There are moments at which Ruby Isle sounds like a band from behind the Iron Curtain that was locked in a basement sometime in the mid-1980s; a band that relishes the heck out of vocoder, that fixes its hair very carefully before leaving the house, that could probably work a Speedo and that, essentially, is utterly focused on making you dance your pants off.”

Posted by ryan on 13 Aug 2008 at 01:08 pm