Tiny Ruins new album, Olympic Girls, has been met with critical acclaim around the world. The record is released today, February 1st, 2019 and is in stores now on LP, CD and digitally via Ursa Minor (NZ), Milk! Records (AU) Marathon Artists (UK / EU), and Ba Da Bing Records (North America).
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“The band’s 2014 album only took two weeks to record but its follow-up was pieced together over leisurely, incremental steps. It’s an approach that infuses Olympic Girls with a charming lightness, the airy melodies and dreamy acoustic guitars gently folding into each other.” – Q Magazine
“Her brilliantly underplayed vocals remain the same, but now they are contrasted with a slightly psychedelic sound on highlights such as ‘How Much’ and the wistful, sighing ‘Holograms’.” – (UK) Sunday Times Culture
“Tiny Ruins’ new album Olympic Girls is a complicated beast. It’s the band’s most technically expansive to date, and the songs manage to balance opposing emotions – it’s bright and joyful, but not without moments of acute darkness.” – NZ Herald
Olympic Girls was produced by bandmate Tom Healy in the same underground space (Paquin Studios at The Lab in hometown Auckland) as their 2014 album, Brightly Painted One. Whereas Brightly Painted One was recorded in three short weeks, Olympic Girls recordings took place over a year. It is the culmination of a flourish of spontaneity and experimentation and stridently reaches beyond Fullbrook’s formerly minimalist domain. Olympic Girls is Tiny Ruins’ first release since their 2016 single ‘Dream Wave’, which was recorded and produced by David Lynch and chosen by Lorde for the Hunger Games soundtrack blueprint she curated.”
Tiny Ruins – Olympic Girls Album Release Shows
(Full Band)
Sunday 10 March – Wellington – Te Auaha, Tapere Nui
Saturday 16 March – Auckland – Pt Chev RSA
Tickets Available now from undertheradar
“Olympic Girls, their satisfyingly unrestrained and courageous third album.” – God Is In The TV 9/10
“Award-winning New Zealanders’ fragile third album.” – Uncut 8/10
“Hollie Fullbrook’s lovely understated voice and wonky lyrical wisdom remain key on the third LP.” – Mojo 8/10
“…an album confident in its vulnerability and luxuriating in a bigger sound.” – Loud and Quiet 8/10
L-R: Alex Freer (Drums), Cass Basil (bass), Hollie Fullbrook (Vocals, Guitar), Tom Healy (guitar, keys),
Photo Credit – Si Moore
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