Ruined
is one of those rarities in music these days because the distorted guitars can
come out sounding like grunge or what the kids call post grunge, but never at
any point on these five songs do you feel as if you’re listening exactly to
some other band that has already been established. To take something that has been so overdone
and find a way to make it your own is quite possibly one of the most difficult
things a musician can do.
There
are dark undertones on the first song, when not kicked in heavily, that sound
like the Violent Femmes song “Color Me Once” and, yeah, any of these songs
could have found their way onto “The Crow” soundtrack back in the day. The overall sound though falls somewhere
between shoegaze and the distorted kind of grunge of a band like Hum.
While
there aren’t too many bands I can compare this with, especially in the grunge
genre, I do feel there is at least one Nirvana nod in here, as well as an
overall vibe of Bush to the extent that I feel like it is influenced by them if
only in the guitar sense and in no way else.
The only modern band I can really bring up with this is Nothing and
since I really like them, I really do enjoy this and look forward to hearing
more music from Ruined sooner than later.
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