Ruins

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THE SECOND MASTERFUL ALBUM FROM THE ENGLISH PSYCH/FOLK/ROCK BANDRecorded in Devon, the Isle of Wight, and London, Wolf People's latest album, Ruins, is their most instinctive and direct achievement to date, returning to a fertile past to tell us who we are today, while harnessing the power of technology and modern ideas to envision an unknown future. Lyrically, Ruins imagines what the planet might 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, all 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 come in multiple colors, sizes, contours, and nuances: 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, a band holiday 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...