Review of The Sound They Make Album by New Ruins
New Ruins
The Sound They Make
This debut album from Chicago's New Ruins was largely written while the principals were at college 600 miles from each other, and recorded in the holidays. It is a rather remarkable collection of the kind of rock that The Foo Fighters, The National and various college bands have made for the past 20 years - deep, dark, withered, acoustic-written and melodic.
The opener, Ships, suggests the band have come to rock, with its tight, jagged intensity, but from there, melancholy is the predominant emotion. However, it feels so right in that minor-key place, like direct heat on itchy skin. At times, the folksy guitar drone recalls Califone, with Elzie Sexton and J. Caleb Means' vocals a Jesus and Mary Chain baritone. This is a genuinely impressive debut - the band sound weather- and road-beaten already, the songs road-honed. If you like it when the Foo Fighters turn down the rawk for a few more acoustic moments, New Ruins are for you.
Rating 9/10
Site - http://www.myspace.com/newruins
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