Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Going Global

Fresh from an appearance at this year’s South By Southwest in Austin and riding a wave of critical acclaim for their new album, Fight Softly, New Zealand’s The Ruby Suns are poised to take over the world. Or at least tour it and maybe absorb a few dozen more influences along the way. The Sub Pop signees’ latest presents a swirling array of worldly sounds, from West African Tuareg music to Brazilian tropicalia to Agentinian cumbia to classic — and not so classic — American rock. But it is all filtered through a rosy electro-pop lens, to the point that each singular idiom becomes nearly indistinguishable. This Sunday, The Ruby Suns appear at The Monkey House in Winooski with South Carolina’s Toro y Moi and Burlington’s Paper Castles.