The U.K.’s Wolf People have announced a new album entitled Ruins. The LP will be released on Jagjaguwar Records on November 11th. With the announcement comes lead single “Ninth Night” as well as a music video for the song. The song has a classic rock vibe to it, with fuzzy distorted tones from both the bass and guitar stealing the mix space. “Ninth Night” lyrically is a recited incantation that was whispered by burglars and vagabonds while toting the famed Hand Of Glory.
Ruins itself conceptually is about nature claiming back the land. Lyrically Ruins imagines how the planet might appear when society has finally fallen to dust and ash, and the creeping vines and nettles have reclaimed the land. It is the product of letting go of conceit, contrivance and, indeed, a career plan.
Recorded in Devon, Isle Of Wight and London, Ruins is their most direct and instinctive work yet, simultaneously reaching back into a fecund past to tell us who we are today, while harnessing the power of modern technology and ideas to ponder unknown futures. Influences upon Ruins come in all shapes, size, contours and hues: the discovery of proto Sabbath/Zeppelin Scottish band Iron Claw, the lesser known landscapes of rural Bedfordshire, backstage Taekwondo stretches, Scandinavian psychedelia, fleeting rural epiphanies, Dungen, Trees, Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac, a group holiday on a remote Finnish island, and Jagjaguwar flipping out after seeing them play in Bloomington, Indiana and insisting it was time they made their Back In Black…
