Writing this blog on a daily basis I'm generally excessively grateful to records I really like at the beginning of the calendar year before the record industry gets back in full swing again after Christmas and times are thin music wise.
A few years back on January 2019, Auckland, New Zealand band Tiny Ruins put out one of those records with their third album Olympic Girls. It was a record that seemed oddly out of time as so many Antipodean records do. Like some charming British Folk early Seventies album featuring Sandy Denny or members of The Strawbs.
That record feels like a long time ago, (Lockdown did that), and now they're back with another album that sounds out of time yet demands your attention and repays your time with interest, just as Olympic Girls did.
Ceremony is the name of the new record and no sooner did I start listening than it started working its spell. What Tiny Ruins do is not particularly sophisticated though it is impressive in terms of its emotive power. Their great assets are their sincerity and their simplicity. Would that more artists trusted and employed such a basic winning formula.
This is immediate but its also intriguing. I'm one play in and already I'm looking forward to playing it again. It's nice to make a new acquaintance that already feels like an old friend.
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