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Tiny Ruins announce their fourth album, Ceremony, out April 28th via Ba Da Bing Records, Marathon Artists and Milk! Records, and share a new single, Dorothy Bay. The follow-up to 2019's celebrated Olympic Girls - a finalist for the Taite Music Prize.
If first single The Crab / Waterbaby was a shimmering meditation on being stuck, Dorothy Bay is
a stomping propulsion forward. Like a passing storm, the songwriter is pulled along the pavement by two wayward dogs, yoinking the listener along into a swirling vortex of sound. Perhaps the most rock 'n' roll moment for Tiny Ruins yet, the track
is grounded in a weighty rhythm section - almost as if Alex Freer and Cass Basil have been finally unleashed. The duelling acoustic and electric guitars of Hollie Fullbrook and Tom Healy circle overhead
before the chorus opens up wide to a view of the harbour itself and a realisation that, 'you carry on - the tide is a radar - breathing on, like it or not.' A song with a strong pull & loudly beating heart, Dorothy Bay continues the saga taking
place on the coves of Little Muddy Creek, with more chapters to follow in the much anticipated new album Ceremony due out on April 28th.
Directed by Alexander Gandar, the accompanying video is an epic, psychedelic
s
urvey of Āwhitu. It took the small crew and band two days of filming to capture the landscape in all its glory - the results are a buzzy, color-shifting, dreamlike visual confection.
Tiny Ruins Upcoming Shows:
Saturday 25 February - HAMILTON ARTS FESTIVAL, Chinoiserie Garden ~ 5pm early show! ~ a full band show ~ ALL AGES ~ Hamilton Gardens, Hamilton, Waikato Tickets
Saturday 04 March - OFF CENTRE FESTIVAL, Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre ~ 8pm ~ a full band show ~ Christchurch Tickets
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