If your band is being lauded as Toronto's next big thing, it's understandable that you'd be in a great big hurry to get your record done.

Such was the case for Born Ruffians, a quirky three-piece whose frantic, Talking Heads-esque freak outs quickly caught the attention of need-to-hear-it-first indie types in 2006, thanks to a well-received self-titled EP and high-profile touring stints with the likes of Peter Björn and John, Caribou, and Hot Chip.

After receiving that kind of mega-watt exposure and with hype already mounting, Luke LaLonde (vocals/guitar), Mitch DeRosier (bass) and Steve Hamelin (drums) went into the studio in the spring of 2007 fully intending to have a full-length record out by October - but the band ran into some snags.

"We recorded it in May of last year, and we had a lot of the songs even before that," DeRosier says, on the phone just outside San Francisco. "We wanted it out in the fall of last year and we really rushed the mixing process. So we just thought that we'd push it back to early 2008."

Red Yellow & Blue hit shelves in early March - but the wait proved hard on the Ruffians, who had begun to feel like a lot of the songs on the record were dated.

"It's a complex a lot of bands get, I think," DeRosier says. "We need to re-convince ourselves sometimes that they're good, that they don't need to be tinkered with and stuff. We need to remind ourselves that these songs are new for some people."

That said, it's not as though the band isn't proud of the record. Born Ruffians hooked up with New York-based producer Rusty Santos - the mastermind behind Animal Collective's weirdo pop - who ended up being a key player in Red Yellow & Blue's sound.

"I think the record turned out great, and working with Rusty really helped out with that," DeRosier says. "It was pretty last minute - our manager, Leila (Hebden), hooked us up with him - but it was the best thing that could have happened. It turned out how we wanted it to sound."

A more fleshed out answer to the EP, Red Yellow & Blue is a blast of spastic energy, full of handclaps, staccato guitars and hiccupy vocals. Born Ruffians' sloppy-on-purpose urgency proves that, sometimes, all you need is two weeks and a guitar, bass and drums to create a fun, minimalist rock record.

"When we recorded our first EP, it was two days and we recorded eight songs," DeRosier says. "We didn't know what was going to happen with it. With this one, we had two weeks - which isn't much either, but it felt like a lot - and we knew we had Warp (the band's label) and that it was going to get out there."

The band is out there, too. About to embark on a Canadian headlining tour, Born Ruffians is touring its proverbial ass off - and then documenting its not-so-wild escapades for a tour blog on Spin.com.

Probably the most telling nod to Born Ruffians' early success is the heightened interest in its back catalogue.

"When we still lived in Midland (Ont.), we recorded and played in Steve's basement, and we recorded a bunch of stuff for fun," DeRosier says. "Just recently, we've heard people asking for those songs. People will say 'Hey, what about this one? Don't you have another record?' It's crazy how that happens. I don't know how people find shit like that."