“In
Ruins” begins with an audio clip that sounds to me like a lecture about space
and time, and I’m not sure whether or not it was lifted from somewhere or if it
is Sebastian Melmoth actually speaking.
It has nice theories, such as how these ideas inside are my ideas and
those ideas outside are your ideas. This has an overall vibe of Stabbing Westward
for some reason, with beats on loops, then it quickly brings out elements of
Us3 before finally settling down with some singing.
The
singing parts on the first side, as it moves into closer to traditional style
songs, are somewhere between The Velvet Underground and David Bowie. There are also bits of heavily distorted
psychedelia, which reminds me of Stone Temple Pilots on some level (Their
trippy stuff, not their heavy stuff, obviously)
Side B
begins with more of a funky punk along the lines of the B-52’s and then turns
into a Tom Waits sound. There are some
most excellent rock n roll parts in here, so much so that it begins to resemble
something like The Rolling Stones only not.
I
particularly enjoy the lyrics on the second side, as one song has a stalker
quality to it about how if he can’t have you no one else can. My mind, as twisted as all get out, goes to
the scene in “Say Anything” with boom box above head and I picture that song
playing, the following investigation, trial, conviction, sentencing, etc.
Though “In
Ruins” has some fluctuations throughout, Sebastian Melmoth manages to keep the
same underlying rock vibe present and the way that it can be so consistent, yet
such a variable has left me rather impressed.
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