Last Days
These Places Are Now Ruins

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Last Days' follow up to 2006’s ‘Sea’, ‘These Places Are Now Ruins’ is, by the artist’s own definition, a personal journey revisiting the past as a means to accepting the present… something we can all truly identify with. The album tells, strictly through feelings, of expectations, disappointments, distance, and the futility of attempting to reclaim lost memories. ‘These Places Are Now Ruins’ is not as much of a concept piece as ‘Sea’, but instead a loosely chronological album documenting thoughts and emotions experienced when returning to what was once home. The result is often dark and abstract when recalling fears or memories we can't forget but also touching on moments when one explores hopes for the future and the impact loved ones and special times have had on our lives. Last Days' sound remains at times cinematic yet slightly lo-fi and now features more live instrumentation, giving ‘These Places Are Now Ruins’ a wider diversity and greater fullness of sound, in places blending melancholic guitar and piano sketches with snatches of both urban and rural sound pollution, in others contrasting white noise dissonance with cycles of hypnotic melody. Few things stay the same and those things we wish would change never do. This CD examines those themes via enveloping and reflective moods, and over its duration accepts that it is sometimes best for us all to leave the past in the past.