Born Ruffians Debut New Song “When Things Get Pointless I Roll Away”

Posted by RiffYou On August 27, 2015 0 Comment

Bands will never make everyone happy. There will always be people out there who don’t like it when a band expands its sound too much, doesn’t expand it enough, or doesn’t find the right balance between an old safe sound and an exciting new one.

With the new song “When Things Get Pointless I Roll Away,” Born Ruffians reach out to one particular fan that became vocally unhappy about the band’s current sound.

“It’s a response to a disheartened/angry fan’s email about how he didn’t connect with our new stuff,” said Born Ruffians frontman Luke Lalonde in a conversation with Consequence of Sound. “It’s meant to take the piss out of myself, comment on a totally solipsistic kind of view that my songs really have any importance or objective truth/meaning/goodness. But also it’s the inability to grasp at even a meaning that simple. That while trying to write such a direct song to one specific person I am constantly struggling to get what I mean out and losing my point. So the title and refrain of the song is a nod to Harry Nilsson’s ‘The Point!’”

He continued: “People have a real romance with the music they loved when they were 15-19 years old (or something around those ages) but you look back at those songs through rose-coloured glasses and confuse it for actual, objective good music. I find it very frustrating. It’s the old guy who can’t acknowledge anything new because it’s not what he liked when he was actually interested in music. It’s 30-year-olds complaining about the younger generation. It’s absolute insanity and so I had to address that error this kid was making but I couldn’t just write him back so I tried to put it into this song. But I fail and constantly lose the point I’m trying to make and in the end I wonder if it’s really so wrong to have an idea of what you think it truly good or bad, even if it’s based on hormones and memories of your golden years. The song is about the idea of objective meaning and truth in art and all of the translations and iterations it can go through from the farm to the plate.”

This song will appear on Born Ruffians’ new album RUFF, due out October 2.

Tour Dates:

Jul 17 London, ON @ Harris Park (Rock the Park)
Jul 25 Montreal, QC @ Lachine Canal (JanSport Bonfire Sessions presented by VICE)
Sep 17 Waterloo, ON @ Starlight
Sep 18 St Catharine’s, ON @ L3 Nightclub
Sep 19 Hamilton, ON @ Casbah
Sep 25 Ottawa, ON @ Ritual
Sep 26 Peterborough, ON @ The Red Dog
Oct 06 Manchester, UK @ Gullivers
Oct 07 London, UK @ 100 Club
Oct 08 Brighton, UK @ Patterns
Oct 10 Metz, FR @ Les Trinitiatres (Zikametz Festival)
Oct 11 Brussels, BE @ Botanique Witloof Bar
Oct 14 Paris, FR –@ La Cigale (MaMA Festival)
Oct 15 Dusseldorf, DE @ FFT
Oct 16 Munich, DE @ Milla
Oct 17 Berlin, DE @ Berghain Kantine
Oct 27 Burlington, VT @ Signal Kitchen
Oct 28 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Oct 29 Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
Oct 30 Northampton, MA @ Pearl Street Nightclub
Nov 02 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
Nov 03 Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel
Nov 04 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle Backroom
Nov 06 Atlanta, GA @ Aisle 5
Nov 07 Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon
Nov 08 Houston, TX @ Studio at Warehouse Live
Nov 09 Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
Nov 10 Austin, TX @ Red 7
Nov 12 Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
Nov 14 Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
Nov 15 San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
Nov 17 Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
Nov 18 Seattle, WA @ Barboza
Nov 19 Nanaimo, BC @ The Globe Hotel
Nov 20 Victoria, BC @ Sugar Nightclub
Nov 21 Vancouver, BC @ The Imperial Theatre
Nov 23 Nelson, BC @ Spiritbar
Nov 26 Calgary, AB @ SAIT’s Gateway
Nov 27 Edmonton, AB @ Starlite Room
Nov 28 Saskatoon, SK – Amigo’s
Nov 29 Winnipeg, MB @ Park Theatre
Nov 30 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry
Dec 01 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
Dec 02 Ferndale, MI @ The Loving Touch