Ceremony seems to suggest formality, yet Tiny Ruins new album is far less formal than the title suggests. Hollie Fullbrook wrote the album during walks with her dogs along the turbulent landscape of “Old Murky” – Tāmaki Makaurau’s (aka Auckland’s)…
“You only had your Olympic girls/The frosted sheen of leotard twirls/Running revolt and winning gold/For the TV screen/Before being led back to the cells.” So sings Hollie Fullbrook on the title track of her third album under the name Tiny…
Holli Fulbrook has pursued her own path of artistic evolution. She is now on a different level with respect to the more intimate and traditional acoustic ballads of her debut, but she hasn’t given in to the allure of her…
Hollie Fullbrook, singer-songwriter of Tiny Ruins, has a voice like honey tea, smooth and warm. This gives her songs a soothing texture, even when they’re sad or wistful, slightly reminiscent of Nick Drake. Brightly Painted One opens with ‘Me at…
The second album from Tiny Ruins is set to be released on the 5th of May. The album ‘Brightly Painted One’ is the band’s first release will Bella Union Records, and will be accompanied by a string of live shows.…
Since we heard yesterday Tiny Ruins have a new album in the pipeline for May, we’ve been unable to get this new track out of our head. It’s everything that made Holly Fullbrook’s debut Some Were Meant For Sea so magical…
We would struggle to be any more thrilled to tell you that the new Tiny Ruins album Brightly Painted One will be released later this year. Since the release of debut effort Some Were Meant For Sea, New Zealander Holly…
For many, Some Were Meant For Sea, the 2011 debut album by Tiny Ruins, arrived as a complete and perfect thing out of nowhere. Now, rather than ploughing on forwards, New Zealander Hollie Fullbrook is filling in the back story…
We at FFS bow to no one, except possibly Tom Ravenscroft, in our love for Tiny Ruins’ 2011 debut album Some Were Meant For Sea – so news of new material was just a little bit exciting. The fact that…
In 2008, Adelir Antonio de Carli, a Brazilian priest, launched himself off a cliff with 1,000 helium balloons and was never seen again. His story led Hollie Fullbrook to write the song ‘Priest With Balloons’, a lyric from which gives…