Ruins

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THE SECOND MASTERFUL ALBUM BY THE ENGLISH PSYCH/FOLK/ROCK BANDRecorded in Devon, the Isle of Wight and London, Ruins, the latest album by Wolf People, is, so far, their most instinctive and direct achievement, returning to a fertile past to tell us who we are today, while harnessing the power of technology and modern ideas to think about an unknown future. Lyrically, Ruins imagines what the planet could become when only ashes and dust of society remain, and creeping vines and nettles have reclaimed their land. This album is the product of a detachment from vanity, deceit and, indeed, any careerist ambition. Wolf People are time travelers, and their tools are mythology, history, hauntology, big riffs, even bigger beats, and electricity. The influences on Ruins take on multiple colors, sizes, shapes and shades: the discovery of the pre-Sabbath/Zeppelin Scottish band Iron Claw, the lesser-known landscapes of rural Bedfordshire, backstage Taekwondo stretches, Scandinavian psychedelia, fleeting rural epiphanies, Dungen, Trees, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac, group holidays on a remote Finnish island and Jagjaguwar going crazy after seeing them play in Bloomington, Indiana, and insisting it was time they made their own Back In Black...