Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland-based band Tiny Ruins today release a new single, “The Crab / Waterbaby.” This is the band’s first musical offering since 2019’s much-lauded album, Olympic Girls. The songs of Tiny Ruins often gift a rich visual and emotive narrative. “The Crab / Waterbaby” is drawn from a time-honoured walk around the coves of Little Muddy Creek aside the Mānukau Harbour. A Crab is found upturned, showing its soft belly. The songwriter sees in the Crab an experience of suffering – it’s as though everyone can see right through you, into your very innards – ‘you cannot help but speak about it.’ A song about the transcendent comfort of ritual and ceremony that ‘returns you the right way,’ to ‘give this day a chance.’ The single was released by Milk! Records in Australia, ...
