''The Ruby Suns'' is the first full-length

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released by the

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based band

The Ruby Suns The Ruby Suns are an indie pop group from New Zealand. They formed in 2004 when Californian Ryan McPhun moved to Auckland and started playing in several bands such as The Brunettes, The Tokey Tones, and The Reduction Agents. Biography The Rub ...

. The band was originally called ''Ryan McPhun & The Ruby Suns'' and the album was released with this title in New Zealand on

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. The album has subsequently been released in the UK on

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in 2006 and in Australia on

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in 2007 with different art, and the title truncated to reflect the band's new name. The 2007 Australian release of the album contains two bonus tracks, both of which are from a self-pressed single by the band in 2007.

Track listing

#"Trees Like Kids" – 1:12 #"Sleep In The Garden" – 1:43 #"Maasai Mara" – 3:07 #"Look Out Sos!" – 4:05 #"Function of The Sun" – 1:10 #"It's Hard To Let You Know" – 3:54 #"Criterion" – 4:45 #"Birthday On Mars" – 4:52 #"Trepidation Part One" – 1:21 #"Trepidation Part Two" – 3:30 #"My Ten Years On Auto-Pilot" – 4:35 #"There's Soup At The End Of The Tunnel" – 2:56 #"Sister Brother (Australian release bonus track)" – 2:13 #"Michi Ni Mayoimashita (Australian release bonus track)" – 1:15

External links

Lil' Chief Records: The Ruby Suns

Lil' Chief RecordsThe Ruby Suns on MySpace
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