Julian Ruiz’s YES
- Basement Party Radio
- Jul 23, 2020
- 2 min read
Shredding his way through the West Coast, Julian Ruiz paints a vivid picture of driving through the California roads through this relaxing yet powerful instrumental track. A clearly talented & knowledgable artist, Julian Ruiz masterfully pays homage to his influences.
BY: JONATHAN RUIZ & JACK DUNCAN / JULY 21, 2020
INSTRUMENTAL ROCK/POST-ROCK
It is rare to see an artist who specializes in Instrumental Rock in today’s musical landscape, but you can find that it is still alive and well through Julian Ruiz. An LA born artist/producer currently residing in Oceanside – Julian experiments between synths, electronic music and instrumental rock in his free time.
“Yes” is a song as good as its title is positive. True to the nature of Instrumental Rock, Julian Ruiz creates a guitar oriented track that pays homage to his influences while honing in on his own sound. The song produced by the artist is noted to be heavily influenced by American Rock band, The Red Hot Chili Peppers & Grunge band Local H. Throughout the entirety of the record, you can hear the RHCP influence present. We receive three minutes and fifty five seconds of strong and clear guitar playing. The drums are nicely placed and Julian manages to run a one man band on this record successfully. The bass line and melodic lead feel reminiscent of the classic Blink 182 sound. It is twinkly at a slower tempo then what you would get in from the Pop Punk sound. At the two minute forty two seconds mark we get this really awesome and short isolation on the bass line which then leads us to the outro of the song with a fuzz overtone that wraps up the song nicely. We can sense the light fuzz to have a subtle Jimi Hendrix feel to it.
YES! Julian Ruiz is worth your listen. There is no doubt in our mind he is an artist with immense talent that needs to be shared and collaborated with. The song’s structure is strong, cohesive and an outlier in today’s SoundCloud landscape. Our only critique on the song, brought to you by guest moderator, guitarist, singer Jack Duncan of Hot Dad Calendar, is the use of the chorus in the beginning; it could be shorter. Differentiating the length of the chorus in the intro, in comparison to the length of it on the other parts of the song, would help its effectiveness a tad bit more. We look forward to seeing what Julian Ruiz does next!
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