This track, from Born Ruffians’ new tour and digital EP, features Tokyo Police Club’s Dave Monks, for what must have been the most polite and self-effacing recording session of all time. It sounds like a good mix of the two songwriters’s talents, with Ruffians’s sparse bass and drums accompanying Monks’s opening verse, before they trade places. The seeds of another Canadian supergroup are in this, I think:
Plinky Plonk EP is out now on Born Ruffians’s tour, and out digitally 11/15 via Warp.
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Um, this is a Tokyo Police Club song. It’s called “First Date Kit”.
It was a bonus track at the end of their latest album. You got the song as a download if you subscribe to their emails. Just thought everyone should know that.
I fixed the title. For Tokyo Police Club it was “Feat. Luke LaLonde,” Warp Records has the reverse. Says Warp: “‘First Date Kid’ is the new track from Born Ruffians off the “Plinky Plonk EP”. The track is a collaboration between Born Ruffians’ Luke LaLonde and Tokyo Police Club’s David Monks.The EP is available now on tour, and by digital download on November 15th 2010.”
Mr. Fierce is definitely correct. It was released as a b-side downloadable if you pre-ordered Champ and is most definitely entitled “First Date Kit” according to that release (which doesn’t even mention the Born Ruffians)
Saw these guys live w/ Franz Ferdidand in 2009. I dunno if they’re bad live or just bad but they are intolerable to listen to. Props to the drummer for giving some kickass energy to the set though.
I’ve seen them live twice and I can confirm that they are amazing live. But whatever, to each his own.