Tiny Ruins

Tiny Ruins are a musical ensemble from Auckland, New Zealand.

Tiny Ruins
Origin	Auckland, New Zealand
Genres	Indie folk
Years active	2009–present
Labels	Spunk Records Own Records Flying Nun Arch Hill Ursa Minor Milk! Marathon Artists Ba Da Bing
Members	Hollie Fullbrook (vocals, guitar) Cass Basil (bass) Alexander Freer (drums) Tom Healy (guitar)

History

Tiny Ruins began as an alias for singer-songwriter Hollie Fullbrook, who recorded as a solo artist prior to 2009.^[1] Fullbrook recorded an EP with singer-songwriter Lieven Scheerlink in 2010 under the name Tiny Ruins and toured Europe for the first time with him and Ana Franco from Coffee & Wine.^[2] In 2011, she recorded the full-length Some Were Meant for Sea. She then opened for Fleet Foxes and toured internationally with Calexico and Beach House.^[1] After adding Cass Basil and Alexander Freer to the lineup, Tiny Ruins recorded a second album, Brightly Painted One, which was released in 2014.^[3][4] Guitarist Tom Healy and violinist Siobhanne Thompson performed on the album and appeared with the group on subsequent tours.^[5] Brightly Painted One was awarded Best Alternative Album at the New Zealand Music Awards in November 2014.^[6]

In 2016, Fullbrook teamed up with Hamish Kilgour and former Terrorways, Gary Havoc & The Hurricanes^[7][8] drummer Gary Hunt for the Hurtling Through release.^[7]

All four Tiny Ruins albums have been shortlisted for the Taite Music Prize.

Discography

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		NZ [9]
Some Were Meant for Sea	Released: 1 May 2011 Label: Spunk Records, Own Records Formats: CD, LP, digital download, streaming	35
Brightly Painted One	Released: 5 May 2014 Label: Flying Nun Records, Spunk, Arch Hill Recordings Formats: CD, LP, cassette, digital download, streaming	19
Olympic Girls	Released: 1 February 2019 Label: Ursa Minor, Milk! Records, Marathon Artists, Ba Da Bing! Formats: CD, LP, digital download, streaming	11
Ceremony	Released: 28 April 2023 Label: Ursa Minor, Milk!, Marathon, Ba Da Bing! Formats: CD, LP, digital download, streaming	9

Extended plays

List of extended plays

Title	Album details
Little Notes (with A Singer of Songs)	Released: 6 December 2010 Label: Underused Records, HI54LOFI Records Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
Haunts	Released: 19 April 2013 Label: Spunk Formats: CD, 10", digital download, streaming
Hurtling Through (Tiny Ruins & Hamish Kilgour)	Released: 27 November 2015 Label: Bella Union, Flying Nun, Spunk Formats: CD, 12", digital download, streaming

Singles

List of singles, showing year released and album name

Title	Year	Album
"Me at the Museum, You in the Wintergardens"[10][11]	2014	Brightly Painted One
"Carriages"[12]
"Dream Wave"[13]	2016	Non-album single
"How Much"[14]	2018	Olympic Girls
"Olympic Girls"[15]
"School of Design"[16]
"Holograms"[17]	2019
"One Million Flowers"[18]		Olympic Girls (Solo)
"My Love Leda"[19]
"The Crab / Waterbaby"[20]	2023	Ceremony
"Dorothy Bay"[21]
"Dogs Dreaming"[22]
"Out of Phase"[23]

Other charted songs

Title	Year	Peak chart positions	Album
		NZ Artist [24]
"Bird in the Thyme"	2014	6	Some Were Meant for Sea