MY RUIN: Tour Dates Cancelled

MY RUIN, the Los Angeles duo consisting of vocalist Tairrie B. and multi-instrumentalist Mick Murphy, has issued the following update:

"It's with heavy hearts and deep regret due to circumstances beyond our control we are being forced to postpone and reschedule our L.A. and London shows as well as our European tour dates. This is all we can tell you as we are unable to go into the details of this decision at this time.

"The tour will be rescheduled for early 2011, with more U.K. dates added. All of the pre-sale tickets which have been sold for the London show on September 24th will remain valid and can be used for the new London date which we will be announcing soon. We are going to keep our event for the London show posted on Facebook< and will be posting a flyer with the new date and venue soon. The same goes for the afterparty event.

"For those of you who have purchased tickets for the L.A. show via Ticketmaster, the Whisky has told us you will be receiving a letter regarding the cancellation and will be reimbursed. We cannot reschedule this until we have our tour re-confirmed.

"As you know, MY RUIN takes pride in being an independent and professional band with a strong DIY ethic and we realize [as we know you do] things like this happen all the time to bands both big and small but this is the first time in the 10-year history of our band that we have had to cancel a tour, not to mention two very special shows in L.A. and London.

"Thank you all for your continued love and support.

"We are both sorry about this situation and hope you will understand that we did everything within our power to prevent this from happening."

MY RUIN will release its sixth full-length studio album, "Ghosts And Good Stories", on August 21 via Tiefdruck-Musik.

The track listing for the CD is as follows:

01. Diggin' For Ghosts
02. Long Dark Night
03. Excommunicated
04. Eyes Black
05. Money Shot
06. Abusing The Muse
07. La Cuidad
08. Suicide Tuesday
09. Saviourself
10. Malediction
11. Repose
12. Turned Out
13. Death Knell

Tairrie B recently stated about "Ghosts And Good Stories", "We went about making this album in a different way. We decided not to rush things but rather take our time and enjoy ourselves. Not only did Mick write the music and play all the instruments on the new album but he also co-produced and mixed it with longtime friend Josh Lynch at Entourage Studios in North Hollywood and Weapons of Mass Productions in Santa Monica, California.

"Our recording sessions were very organic and was nice to have the freedom to create and produce the album we wanted to make with no heavy-handed pressure or deadlines from the label but instead lots of support. Tiefdruck Musik owner Daniel Heerdman really loves and understands our music and band as does everyone at the label which is something we have not felt from a label in a long time and it's a welcome surprise.

"While I was creating the album artwork, I wanted the feeling to be otherworldly and dark, unlike anything we have done in the past and to set the mood for the music, which I think it does.

"The new cover art [see below] is actually a vintage portrait from my family album. It is a photo of my great grandparents in front of their home taken sometime in the early 1900s which has been slightly altered.

"I came across the image last year as we were recording our new album and it just sort of spoke to me in a very haunting way. I was drawn to it over and over again while coming up with the album's title, which is taken from the lead track 'Diggin' for Ghosts'.

"The album starts off very doomy and ends with a slow, spoken-word dirge over a musical soundscape that ties it all in from beginning to end but the record as a whole is definitely very brutal and up tempo with lots of rock riffs and my trademark scream vocals."

When asked about the theme of the new album in a recent interview for Devolution magazine in the U.K., Tairrie said, "I would say that 'Ghosts and Good Stories' is definitely a concept album and one which is quite reflective and apocalyptic on many levels. It didn't necessarily start off that way but it eventually began to write itself into a bit of an intimate portrait of our life as a band in and around the city of Los Angeles.

"Over the years religious imagery has played a huge part in my lyrical content and I have often left things open to interpretation but with this record it has gone from being more of a cryptically metaphorical aesthetic to highly confrontational in some instances."