# Tiny Ruins

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

## History

Tiny Ruins began as an alias for singer-songwriter Hollie Fullbrook, who recorded as a solo artist prior to 2009. 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. 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. After adding Cass Basil and Alexander Freer to the lineup, Tiny Ruins recorded a second album, Brightly Painted One, which was released in 2014. Guitarist Tom Healy and violinist Siobhanne Thompson performed on the album and appeared with the group on subsequent tours. Brightly Painted One was awarded Best Alternative Album at the New Zealand Music Awards in November 2014.
In 2016, Fullbrook teamed up with Hamish Kilgour and former Terrorways, Gary Havoc & The Hurricanes drummer Gary Hunt for the Hurtling Through release.
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 |
| Title | Album details | NZ |
| 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" | 2014 | Brightly Painted One |
| "Carriages" | 2014 | Brightly Painted One |
| "Dream Wave" | 2016 | Non-album single |
| "How Much" | 2018 | Olympic Girls |
| "Olympic Girls" | 2018 | Olympic Girls |
| "School of Design" | 2018 | Olympic Girls |
| "Holograms" | 2019 | Olympic Girls |
| "One Million Flowers" | 2019 | Olympic Girls (Solo) |
| "My Love Leda" | 2019 | Olympic Girls (Solo) |
| "The Crab / Waterbaby" | 2023 | Ceremony |
| "Dorothy Bay" | 2023 | Ceremony |
| "Dogs Dreaming" | 2023 | Ceremony |
| "Out of Phase" | 2023 | Ceremony |

### Other charted songs

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