Thursday, January 11, 2007

Hanging up the Boots

After 1 EP and 3 albums, effervescent indie popsters Ruck Rover have decided to call it a day. In the Candle Records newsletter this week, the boys cite ‘chronic inactivity’ as their primary reason for splitting up. Rob Clarkson will continue his solo career as will Stanley Paulzen under the guise of quirky lo-fi singer-songwriter Fred Astereo. The last chance to see them will be at the Candle Records Farewell Concerts in Feb. (Buy your tix for the Melbourne show from The Corner.)

While I’ve only seen the wiry onballers play a couple of times (sorry, I had to get another footy reference in there somewhere), and I’m not that familiar with their stuff (apart from Thornbury which had quite a high rotation on JJJ a few years back), it will be sad to see them go, and really brings perspective to the departure of Candle. While no doubt many of the popular artists on the label such as The Lucksmiths and Darren Hanlon will be able to find homes elsewhere, some others may not be so lucky. I guess we will just have to look forward to the release of the Small Knives’ new album in Feb, and then hope some other label gives a go to all those indie kids (Actually, a lot of them are men around thirty. but you can't have indie men, can you?) who can write a literate lyric, and a melodic catchy tune.

Here's a couple of otherwise unreleased Ruck Rover tracks from the latest and last Candle compilation, Hamper:

[mp3 - 4.1MB] Ruck Rover - New York
[mp3 - 3.5MB] Ruck Rover - Prague

[buy the compilation from Polyester or the Candle site]

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