“[Tiny Ruins’] orchestrated folk can feel timeless and inconspicuous at once, content to lie unnoticed in an understated grandeur all its own.” – NPR Music
“Hollie Fullbrook’s retro-cool purr suffuses the music with a tone that implies both tragedy and seduction, drawing listeners close for moving story-song lyrics of expansive beauty.”– A.V. Club
“Fullbrook’s voice is silvery, with a controlled grain, the texture imparting a sense of trust as she guides us through muddied trails of melancholy.” – Pitchfork
“[Hollie] Fullbrook has this way of making surreal flourishes out of mundane details and everyday emotions—mining darkness and drama from casual turns of phrase.”– Noisey
Tiny Ruins announce their fourth album, Ceremony, out April 28th via Ba Da Bing Records, Marathon Artists and Milk! Records, and share a new single, ‘Dorothy Bay.’
The follow-up to 2019’s celebrated Olympic Girls – a finalist for the Taite Music Prize.If first single ‘The Crab / Waterbaby‘ was a shimmering meditation on being stuck, ‘Dorothy Bay‘ is a stomping propulsion forward – the songwriter is pulled along the pavement by two wayward dogs, yoinking the listener along into a swirling vortex of sound. Perhaps the most rock ‘n’ roll moment for Tiny Ruins yet, the track is grounded in a weighty rhythm section – almost as if Alex Freer and Cass Basil have been finally unleashed. The duelling acoustic and electric guitars of Hollie Fullbrook and Tom Healy circle overhead before the chorus opens up wide to a view of the harbour itself and a realisation that, ‘you carry on – the tide is a radar – breathing on, like it or not.’ A song with a strong pull & loudly beating heart, ‘Dorothy Bay’ continues the saga taking place on the coves of Little Muddy Creek, with more chapters to follow in the much anticipated new album Ceremony due out on April 28th.
Directed by Alexander Gandar, the accompanying video is an epic, psychedelic survey of Āwhitu. It took the small crew and band two days of filming to capture the landscape in all its glory – the results are a buzzy, color-shifting, dreamlike visual confection.
Tiny Ruins Upcoming Shows:
Saturday 25 February – HAMILTON ARTS FESTIVAL, Chinoiserie Garden ~ 5pm early show! ~ a full band show ~ ALL AGES ~ Hamilton Gardens, Hamilton, Waikato Tickets
Saturday 04 March – OFF CENTRE FESTIVAL, Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre ~ 8pm ~ a full band show ~ Christchurch Tickets
ABOUT CEREMONY
A rare blend of eloquent lyrical craft and explorative musicianship, the songs of Tiny Ruins are etched into the memories of crowds and critics worldwide. Traversing influences that cross genre and era, the artistry of Hollie Fullbrook and her band spans delicate folk, lustrous dream pop and ebullient psychedelia. Building on the sparse arrangements and a novelist’s eye for detail cultivated over the past several years, the group’s greatly anticipated fourth album is out on Ba Da Bing Records, Marathon Artists and Courtney Barnett’s label Milk! Records. If Olympic Girls was an album suffused with existential emptiness, portraits often sketched from afar or in empty buildings, Ceremony zooms right in, unafraid of intimacy and connection. Now over a decade in, Hollie Fullbrook’s evolution as Tiny Ruins has reached an apex of power, as she’s become a deft bandleader of incredible musicians. Ceremony has many moods, ranging from intense minimalist ‘Diving & Soaring‘ that evokes a classic folk vibe through to the heavier Neil Young-inspired ‘Dorothy Bay‘, bop ‘In Light of Everything‘, and the hooky, uplifting ‘Dogs Dreaming‘. Noodly 70s electric guitars, eclectic percussion and prominent bass might make it their most listenable and accessible album to date. The songs are all of a theme – exploring the coastal shores of the Manukau Harbour and working through a psychological ‘shellscape’, while tending toward a joyful / hopeful take on the passing of time. Ceremony is the band’s highest achievement, an album about confronting confusion, loss, dislocation and ultimately realising the beauty of life’s unpredictable paths.
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Ceremony Tracklisting:
1. Dogs Dreaming
2. Daylight Savings
3. Driving & Soaring
4. In Light Of Everything
5. Out Of Phase
6. Dorothy Bay
7. Seafoam Green
8. Earthly Things
9. Dear Annie
10. Sounds Like
11. The Crab/Waterbaby
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