{"product_id":"ruin-he-ho-fiat-lux-2xlp-black","title":"RUIN - He Ho\/Fiat Lux 2xLP (BLACK)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSouthern Lord are extremely pleased to be reviving the music of \nPhiladelphia’s lost punk heroes, Ruin. Long considered a treasured local\n delicacy of the city’s earlier hardcore scene, Ruin released two albums\n during their original run, 1984’s He-Ho and 1986’s Fiat Lux, both of \nwhich will be combined in for a vinyl release this December.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet against the backdrop of a city destroying itself in slow motion, \nRuin were of a Philly generation that had to create its own culture to \npush back against the despair and dead ends that they were confronted \nwith. Their relative isolation is mirrored in the distance between \nRuin’s muscular, turbo-garage jams and the rest of US punk\/HC at the \ntime – the band got it across not through violent speed and mania, but \nwith body-shaking chunks of simpler punk that refused to fit in with the\n wider template. Labelled from their early days as a Buddhist hardcore \nband (though not strictly the truth), Ruin are an object of intrigue \nthat have rewarded the curious since 1982, but getting your hands on \neither out of print He-Ho or Fiat Lux has never been an easy task. A \nrecorded output that totals 28 tracks (including a couple of significant\n Leonard Cohen covers that were praised by the artist himself) will at \nlast be available on a wider scale, including original scans of the \ndetailed lyric sheets and inserts, as well as in depth retrospective \nnotes that help to place Ruin in Philly and punk history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerforming on candlelit stages all clad head to toe in white, Ruin \naren’t a band to listen to if you want to hear another near identical \niteration of a New York, LA or Midwest sound – they simply couldn’t be \nplaying for any other reason than to satisfy themselves and realise \ntheir ideas. They rocked hard and loud but in their own method, and the \nheat and sweat of their playing emanates from the rich recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Lord Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56595558007110,"sku":null,"price":29.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0851\/2300\/6790\/files\/0008680920_10.jpg?v=1778920403","url":"https:\/\/selfmadegod-store.com\/products\/ruin-he-ho-fiat-lux-2xlp-black","provider":"Selfmadegod Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}