Ten Paces

Ruen Brothers

Publicado el 2/6/23 por Yep Roc Records
Artistas principales: Ruen Brothers
Género Alternativa & Indie

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On their third album, Los Angeles-by-way-of-Scunthorpe, England duo Ruen Brothers conjure a widescreen atmosphere of 1950s noir and Western imagery that's given an even further twist with their bold contemporary pop accents. It's a cinematic vibe that the real-life siblings -- lead singer/guitarist Henry Stansall and singer/instrumentalist Rupert Stansall -- first introduced on their 2018 Rick Rubin-produced debut, All My Shades of Blue, and further expanded on the follow-up, Ultramodern. But where their first album felt like an attempt at making an unabashed Roy Orbison production, Ultramodern (whose title was both a cheeky reference to the postwar '50s obsession with modernism and a winky nod to the pair's own anachronistic influences) found them incorporating a synthy, contemporary pop aesthetic into their sound. On Ten Paces, they split the difference, digging deeper into their '50s-inspired sound while also crafting pop hooks that wouldn't sound out of place on a record by the Killers. Conceptually, Ten Paces is built upon a conscious mix of film noir and cowboy Western tropes, and cuts like "Slow Draw," "Bullet Blues," and "Hi-Yo" find the duo transforming the pulpy themes into catchy, metaphorical pop anthems. They explicitly highlight the concept on the romantic "Don't Know What's Come Over You," singing "Like a sci-fi dream/Or a story in the west/That I don't wanna see/Though I wanna know the end." Vocally, singer Henry Stansall's wavering, hardboiled Willie Nelson croon is a perfect fit for this type of stylized pop, ably straddling the matinee idol line between Chris Isaak and Bryan Ferry. There's also a shadowy sense of paranoia running through the album, as in "The Fear," where Stansall yearns for his lover's embrace, singing "And I'm comfy in my bed/Comfy in my home/You can rock my twilight zone." With Ten Paces, Ruen Brothers have crafted an album caught between the dream of a '50s pulp past and the harsh light of the present, one that lives in its own pop twilight zone.

© Matt Collar /TiVo

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