Agree with MostlyGhostly... Vampire Weekend is kind of light in the loafers compared to these guys. I hear the same Vampire stuff about Surfer Blood, and think its even further off with them. I like the Ruffians' more ragged edges... while at the same time some of their hyper-tight bass and drum bits make me think of (hyper-clean) Rush... but I better stop talking about the music before the "song meanings" people come after me.
Maybe I'm way off, but i thought the singer was describing some girl on a downward spiral... needing "supplies," talking romantically about her own death.... and reacting against it by singing (in a totally awesome section), "sing it wIth me it goes like this 'we’re not gonna die lIke this.'"
Before I heard or thought much about the rest of the lyrics, that section is what got me replaying the song over and over. Just by itself it reminded me of "we're not gonna take it," or SB's "I'm too young to be defeated." As in, "choose your own poison, if that's what you want to do, but I'm not touching that shit."
Agree with MostlyGhostly... Vampire Weekend is kind of light in the loafers compared to these guys. I hear the same Vampire stuff about Surfer Blood, and think its even further off with them. I like the Ruffians' more ragged edges... while at the same time some of their hyper-tight bass and drum bits make me think of (hyper-clean) Rush... but I better stop talking about the music before the "song meanings" people come after me.
Maybe I'm way off, but i thought the singer was describing some girl on a downward spiral... needing "supplies," talking romantically about her own death.... and reacting against it by singing (in a totally awesome section), "sing it wIth me it goes like this 'we’re not gonna die lIke this.'"
Before I heard or thought much about the rest of the lyrics, that section is what got me replaying the song over and over. Just by itself it reminded me of "we're not gonna take it," or SB's "I'm too young to be defeated." As in, "choose your own poison, if that's what you want to do, but I'm not touching that shit."