ARTiST: New Ruins
TiTLE: The Sound They Make
LABEL: Hidden Agenda Records
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 34:27 min
SiZE: 55,5 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Jan-25-2007
RELEASE DATE: Apr-17-2007
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. Ships 02:37
02. Nameless 03:03
03. Flowers 03:11
04. Book Lung 03:49
05. Records 02:19
06. I'll Sleep In Your House 02:31
07. Monuments 02:59
08. Attic 03:03
09. Outside 03:48
10. A Scribble 03:04
11. Run Up The Walls 04:03
Release Notes:
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The Sound They Make is the debut album from East
Central Illinois duo New Ruins, file under: Small
Town Midwestern Gothic. Droney acoustic/electric
rock, songs rendered in sepia-tone, awash in rural
melancholy, folksy guitar-mantras tinted with
martial snares and cooing organs. New Ruins
architects Elzie Sexton and J.Caleb have been making
music together for a decade and there is an intimacy
between the two here that rivals friendship and
brotherhood. Compared to: Ugly Casanova, Iron &
Wine, Talk Talk, Mojave 3, Silver Jews, and John
Fahey.
Elzie Sexton and J. Caleb Means grew up in rural
Southern Illinois, and have been playing music
together for more than a decade. After a youth spent
playing in punk rock bands, they went their separate
ways to attend colleges and universities around the
Midwest; J. Caleb north to film school, while Elzie
went South to study fine arts. In 2004, they formed
New Ruins as a long-distance recording project,
trading tracks in the mail. During weekends and
breaks from their studies the band recorded and
self-released a couple EPs and a full-length
ôcollectionö, mixed and matched from songs created
with plenty of first class postage. In August of
2005, Elzie and J. Caleb moved to Champaign-Urbana,
Illinois, to work on the live representation. After
a year of playing shows as a duo, the band ran
across likeminded souls and have welcomed aboard the
rhythm section of bassist Paul Chastain (Velvet
Crush, Matthew Sweet, Unbunny) and percussion
stylist Roy Ewing (Braid, Very Secretary, Unbunny)