Tiny Ruins, the Auckland-based project led by songwriter Hollie Fullbrook, have recently released a brand new 7″ single, ‘Dream Wave’. As well as offering a glimpse of what might await on the band’s forthcoming album, the single is also remarkable because of who was on recording and production duties. Mr. David Lynch. Yep, that’s right, that David Lynch. Originally recorded for the Lorde-curated Hunger Games soundtrack, ‘Dream Wave’ didn’t quite fit with the other contributions and so remained in suspended animation until now.
The song is the sort of lushly beautiful folk that we’ve come to expect from Tiny Ruins. Its about drifting minds, inspired by a friend who grew up so close to a beach that the ocean was always calling, especially when stuck in a high school classroom.
“Always a dream wave
drawing you off track,
a dream wave
a coast calls you back”
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The b-side is an instrumental version of the song, a track that somehow manages to resonate with even more poetry than the original, despite its wordless nature.
You can get ‘Dream Wave’ now on 7″ vinyl from Bella Union (worldwide), Flying Nun (NZ) and Spunk! Records (Aus). You can also read Lynch interviewing Fullbrook over at Faster Louder.
Photo credit: Georgie Craw