To celebrate the upcoming release of their fourth album, Ceremony, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland based Tiny Ruins will embark on an eight-date headline tour around Aotearoa this Autumn. Ceremony, out April 28th, is the much-anticipated follow-up to 2019’s celebrated Olympic Girls – a finalist for the Taite Music Prize.
Today, the band share a new track, ‘Dogs Dreaming,’ one of most exuberant offerings thus far from Tiny Ruins. Alex Freer’s drums lay a particularly playful bedrock amidst rippling organ and strong, unyielding vocals from Hollie Fullbrook. Deft clusters of Cass Basil’s bass notes free-wheel between floating and sliding, while Tom Healy’s spirited guitar flourishes and additional vocals lace the song with a sort of mid-80s nostalgia. ‘Dogs Dreaming’ was written on a solo expedition to the Āwhitu Peninsula, when Fullbroook surveyed the isolated lighthouse alone at dusk, freaking herself out in the process.
Listen to Tiny Ruins’ ‘Dogs Dreaming’
Watch the ‘Dorothy Bay’ Video
Listen to ‘The Crab / Waterbaby‘
Pre-order Ceremony
May 11 – Loons, Lyttelton
May 12 – Port Chalmers Town Hall, Dunedin
May 13 – Sherwood, Queenstown
May 19 – Meow, Wellington
May 20 – Paisley Stage, Napier
May 21 – St. Peter’s Hall, Paekākāriki
May 25 – Theatre Royal, Nelson
May 27 – Hollywood Avondale, Auckland
Banished Music presale starts March 13 at 9am
General tickets are on sale March 15 at 9am
Tickets from Banished Music
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, Courtney Barnett’s label Milk! Records, and the band’s own imprint Ursa Minor in New Zealand. 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.
Ceremony Tracklisting:
1. Dogs Dreaming
2. Daylight Savings
3. Diving & 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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