Tiny Ruins are a band based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, comprising singer-songwriter & guitarist Hollie Fullbrook, bass player Cass Basil, drummer Alex Freer and electric guitarist/producer Tom Healy.
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 detailcultivated over the past several years, the group’s greatly anticipated fourth album is out on Marathon Artists and Courtney Barnett’s label Milk! Records.
Where the third album “Olympic Girls” was suffused with loss and existential emptiness, with fourth album “Ceremony”, 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 and Crazy Horse inspired ‘Dorothy Bay’, boppy danceable ‘In Light of Everything’, and the hooky, uplifting ‘Dogs Dreaming’. Noodly 70s electric guitars, eclectic percussion and prominent bass 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.
Tiny Ruins are currently touring in Brighton tonight, Birmingham tomorrow, Leeds the next day, then Hebden Bridge on Thursday, London on Friday and Manchester on Saturday! Then a secret Berlin show (reply if you want to know those details)…and France later next week.
If you’re in any of those towns, we would love to see you ❤
Cass and I are playing most of the album in duo-mode – ‘classic ruins’!
Feraturing 4 guitars & shiny new cases made in Hull.
Love from Hollie
all songs written by Hollie Fullbrook
The Fat Angel Sings 