Name: Ruinas Futuras
Brand: Wild Honey

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Bonus disc: No

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LMNK68LP

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Black

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-07-02

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Kudos

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Wild Honey

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Indie Pop / Shoegaze

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Lovemonk

Lovemonk is a Madrid-based independent record label that was founded in 2003 by Madrid DJ Borja Torres, also known as Señorlobo, and Bruno Sprocket. This label specializes in broken beats, soulful house, world beats, and midtempo music, always staying on the good side of funk. Lovemonk is known for its diverse range of artists and performers who create unique and captivating music.

One notable aspect of Lovemonk is its sublabel called Mono Records. Mono Records focuses on compilations and adds another dimension to the already impressive catalog of Lovemonk releases. With this sublabel, Lovemonk showcases even more talented artists from various genres.

If you are a fan of eclectic sounds that blend different styles together seamlessly, Lovemonk is the perfect label for you. Explore their collection of albums and compilations to discover new music that will keep your ears entertained and your feet moving.

The songs of Ruinas Futuras appeared in Guillermo Farré's voice memos as if by magic.

After Torres Blancas (2017), Wild Honey's last album to date, Guillermo's life became somewhat of a topsy turvy affair, not in the least because he became a dad twice in the space of less than two years. Between fatherhood and office work, the days went by at lightning speed, and there was hardly any room for music. Or was there?

One day, while traveling by train, Guillermo started listening to the voice memos he'd been accumulating on his phone. He discovered sketches of songs in which, behind kids' babbling, crying and screaming, he could hear pianos, guitars and out-of-tune ah-ah-ahs he didn't recall recording. It was like opening a chest found in the attic, forgotten and left there by a previous tenant.

Wanting to fit the tiny pieces of the puzzle together into an album, Guillermo turned to Remate, the musician he's been collaborating with in recent years, composing and producing soundtracks in an almost symbiotic way. From the start, they knew they wanted to apply their soundtrack production experiments to the classical song format.

But then, Guillermo's life took another turn, a global one this time, and his plans to record the album in the traditional way were blown up with the onset of the pandemic.

Guillermo and Remate began to work remotely, with continuous video calls and files going back and forth over the internet—the next mutation of Guillermo's voice memos. They worked like this for months, and they seized the opportunity to collaborate with musicians confined to different cities. Shawn Lee took care of the drums and percussion from London; Javier Lorente and Anita Steinberg did the bass tracks and backing vocals from Berlin, and the album was finished off by Ali Chant, mixing the songs in his studio in Bristol, where he had previously worked with artists such as Aldous Harding and Perfume Genius.The result is Ruinas Futuras, an album of songs that came out of nowhere, recorded under the strangest circumstances we've ever had to live through, and which talks about the moments when life takes a turn, and you don't really know in which direction.

On the cover, we see Guillermo Farré suspended in the air, falling, ascending. A moment of euphoria, the prelude to a crash. Life, frozen in an instant that we won't be able to understand until a long time after. The artwork, like on Wild Honey's previous albums, is by Grande Graphix, with photography by Yago Castromil.

Ruinas Futuras is an album of rounded songs, where the intimate intersects with science fiction. String and brass arrangements with undulating synths. Percussion loops with tremolo and infinite reverb resonating among the ruins of a post-apocalyptic cinematic city. It's a found album, on which Guillermo Farré talks about life's twists and turns, and which holds the best collection of songs of his career.