TVAM
Ruins
70--90点相当
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TVAM として知られる Joe Oxley
良いんだけど、
コード進行が省エネに感じるのよね。
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TVAM returns with his new album, Ruins, the follow-up to High Art Lite, Ruins is an album shaped by grief, reflection, and transformation; a record that captures both the weight of loss and the strange beauty that comes with it. Written after a self-imposed break from songwriting, it represents a shift in focus and perspective for Joseph Oxley.
“I wanted to step away from what I thought I was supposed to make,” he explains. “The worst advice anyone can give you is, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ It’s always broken. It always needs fixing.”
At its core, Ruins explores loss not as emptiness but as presence, something that reshapes the world around you. The album finds Oxley wrestling with the dualities of human experience: the tension between what’s said and unsaid, between humanism and nihilism, public and private, despair and acceptance.
“Hope and despair don’t cancel each other out,” he says. “They can co-exist — that’s what makes it feel real.”
