Tiny Ruins / Some Were Meant for Sea
On the weight of Hollie Fullbrook aka Tiny Ruins’ debut album Some Were Meant for Sea, New Zealand can add Ms Fullbrook to its already impressive catalogue of female singer-song writers. The West Aucklander’s lilting breathless vocal, delicate composition and gift for storytelling mark this as a debut of genuine merit. Recorded in a former school hall in Gippsland, Victoria, Fullbrook’s oft surrealist tales of belly dancing traffic controllers (‘Priest With Balloons’) and love letters flying on the wind (‘Little Notes’) betray traces of Leonard Cohen, Marianne Faithfull et al while being at once individual and original.
Taranaki Chronicles 