New Ruins Local Artist

Photograph taken by David J. Cubberly (www.davidjcubberly.com)

    Contact: newruins@hotmail.com

    Websites: Myspace

    Genre: Indie, Rock

    Last Played: 10-25-2009 9:20 pm

    Sounds Like:Mojave 3, Silver Jews, Iron and Wine

    "We Make Our Own Bad Luck" is the new album from Illinois paranormal act New Ruins, the follow-up to their first release, "The Sound They Make", from 2007. Droning acoustic/electric rock haunted by rural spectres, songs rendered in sepia-tone, but updated with DIY studio machinations. Since their debut the original duo of songwriters J. Caleb Means and Elzie Sexton has expanded into a quintet, featuring bassist/multi-instrumentalist Paul Chastain (Velvet Crush, Matthew Sweet, Parasol Mail Order), drummer Roy Ewing (Braid, Very Secretary, Parasol Mail Order), and Andrew Davidson (Tractor Kings, Chemicals) on bass and auxiliary percussion. New Ruins is a band as comfortable in a stage-shaking three-guitar line-up as it is in a more intimate stripped-down acoustic setting.

    Discography

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    The Sound They Make

    (2007)

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