ALONE
catalog number: GR#100
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Yoshida Tatsuya / Alone
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SKiN GRAFT Records
is proud to announce our 100th release, the debut album from RUINS ALONE.

Originally intended as a power trio, Japan's RUINS was formed by drummer / vocalist Yoshida Tatsuya in 1985. After the guitarist failed to show up for the band's first rehearsal, the group abandoned the guitar and chose to jettison forward as a drums and bass duo. Over the years, Yoshida would remain the guiding force behind the band, while RUINS' bass duties would change hands four times.

The visceral energy of RUINS early years are chronicled on the "1986- 1992"collection and document the evolution of RUINS hardcore progressive rock sound. In 1995 bassist Sasaki Hisahi joined Yoshida, and the new duo made their debut on the "Refusal Fossil" album. Countless tours and numerous recordings would follow. "Tzomborgha" released in 2002 by Ipecac Records would be their last full length album - in 2004 Hisahi retired from the band.

In 2005, RUINS unveiled one last song, "Gwodhunqa", for a SKiN GRAFT / RELAPSE Records co-release - a split 7" and comic set with the band HIGH ON FIRE. In the summer of that year, Yoshida took on the task of performing the music of RUINS solo, while performing with a different guest bass player in each city, embarking on the "Bassist Wanted Tour".

From this point on, Yoshida would continue RUINS as a one-man act, touring as RUINS Alone and, with bassist Sasaki Hisahi, issuing remixed & remastered editions of their albums "Vrresto", Pallaschtom" and "Refusal Fossil". During this time, Yoshida also re-energized his other bands, KOENJIHYAKKEI and KOREKYOJINN - - and RUINS Alone was chosen by Matt Groening to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties in May 2010 in Minehead, England.

It's been nearly 10 years since the last RUINS album was released. Now, having traveled the world time and time again, refining RUINS for the 21st century, Yoshida is ready to release the debut album from RUINS Alone, 23 tracks in all, featuring all new compositions, as well as new recordings of classic RUINS songs sporting new arrangements.

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PRESS QUOTES:

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o Ruins Alone is a direct interface between Tatsuya?s brain and his drumsticks. You could get 15 rock records out of one Ruins Alone performance. - Life Is Noise

Ruins brilliantly structured compositions, in songs that range in length from less than a minute, to nearly seven minutes, are what make (the band) a constantly engaging and undeniably compulsive listening experience. The simple technical prowess amazes.- Popmatters

The opener wastes no time in burning down all bridges to sanity: "Outburn" is at once the greatest-ever hardcore punk song not to protest anything or even feature real words in the lyrics, and a public service announcement for ADD awareness. The main riff is as stubbornly assured as anything Bad Brains put to wax, and the lest you get bored during its eight seconds, another wild-ass riff is there to take its place, and again and again. - Pitchfork

o “Fiendish and crazed, Ruins explore string-popping ideas only to degenerate into complex whirlpools of distortion, then regroup into a new version of their original idea with surprising grace. Ruins grow on you like a cancerous cell, and are killer. - CMJ

o ”(RUINS) wed histrionic vocals like Magma's Christian Vander in a tourettic fit to seething hardcore re-interpretations of Udu Wudu-era Magma's motion, dicing up time signatures like a musical hibachi chef on Benzedrine. The peaks of gibbering lunacy Ruins occasionally achieve beggar disbelief... a definite A- ticket ride. - Alternative Press

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TRACK LISTING:
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JEMVLESQAPP
LAIPTHCIG
IXZELGRIVER
STONEHENGE
BAXCEMGILASZ
HYDEROMASTGRONINGEM
EQUESSPALDHO
SANCTUARY
GLASCHZENCK
PALLASCHTOM
AHFTSIVESPHA
DAGDAD
VILLANZYATS
GRUBANDGO
LOCKSSOMBLEZ
SCHVOSTESS
NEFESTORXISS
CAMBODIA
OBTHECKLOMTZ
DHASKRIVE

- BONUS TRACKS:

NOTTURUNO
PROGROCK
HARDROCK

FUN FACT(S): If you were to take all of the bands that Yoshida Tatsuya has been in and put them end to end, they would wrap around the world two and a half times!

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