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Jesse Ruins Preps Debut 7 Inch For Double Denim, Listen Now

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Not too long ago, CUZ ME PAIN’s Jesse Ruins signed with Double Denim records and plans were made to release the Tokyo bedroom producer’s debut seven inch in the near future. Well, the “A Bookshelf Sinks Into The Sand/In Icarus” records comes out in early December and now you can hear the A-side right now. “A Bookshelf Sinks Into The Sand” started life as the last track on Jesse Ruins’ split with THE BEAUTY, and now gets a little more black-hole like for the Double Denim version. Listen below.

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Sapphire Slows Remixes Jesse Ruins’ “Dream Analysis”

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Here’s a pairing that makes complete sense – CUZ ME PAIN’s most visible act Jesse Ruins and one of his more buzzed about tracks of 2011, “Dream Analysis,” gets remixed by similarly-cerebral bedroom artists Sapphire Slows. The swirling original mix of the song boasted a bit of a shadow edge, but the general glow of the whole thing came off as ultimately upbeat, like youth being celebrated one final time before the onset of adult life’s numerous coming downs. Sapphire Slows stays true to her name and makes her rework take a bit longer to unfold, the opening seconds dragging (in a good way!) like a narcotic-induced haze. The pace picks up soon, but Slows stays in darker territory, Jesse Ruin’s blast of youth replaced with a minimal whispyness. Listen below.

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Jesse Ruins’ first seven inch record will be released sometime soon on Double Denim records, while Sapphire Slows’ has a record out soon too.

New Jesse Ruins Video: “Sofija”

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JESSE RUINS – SOFIJA directed by Tim O’Sullivan from Hidden Horizons on Vimeo.

So what exactly is the policy on spoilers when it comes to music videos? There has to be some sort of document out there outlining what to do, yeah? Well, I’m not going to give away much of anything that happens in the new video for Jesse Ruins’ new clip for the dreamy ghost-dance track “Sofija.” Though by saying that I actually have revealed something spoiler-worthy happens! Oh no! Whatever, watch the clip, directed by Tim O’Sullivan above and continue to enjoy that great track.

New Jesse Ruins: “Sofija”

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The past few months have already seen the CUZ ME PAIN project Jesse Ruins go from a mysterious little thing lurking in the shadows to an artist responsible for one of the better halves of a cassette tape this year to a blog darling. “Sofija” is the latest in a string of great releases from Jesse Ruins, and might be the most haunting one yet. Whereas “Dream Analysis” and “Inner Ambient” played like a slightly less bombastic M83 (sorry to borrow the same comparison Gorilla Vs. Bear made but….when the shoe fits ya know?), “Sofija” goes for something more enveloping, gossamer synths threaded around one another as a warm-albeit-ghostly voice floats around. On its own “Sofija” sounds great, but it’s especially good because this song truly establishes the Jesse Ruins sound. Previous releases at times weren’t all that removed from what CUZ ME PAIN pal NITES did with bright synths and semi-obscured voices. Yet this newest number creates space between the two, and may be Jesse Ruin’s best yet. Listen below as the blog-hype grows.

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New Jesse Ruins: “Inner Ambient”

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Bit of a deceiving title, seeing as “Inner Ambient” certainly isn’t ambient music. Rather, the Gorilla Vs. Bear approved Jesse Ruins’ track imagines M83 shrunk down to bedroom size. All the woozy 80s synths and ghostly vocals are their, but whereas that French group went with bombast Jesse Ruins embraces something a bit more personal, an interior specter if you will. Despite the misleading name, “Inner Ambient” stands as another winner for the Jesse Ruins project, gaining more steam with each release. Listen below.

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