Rich Ruth Announces New Album “Water Still Flows” & Single “No Muscle, No Memory” :: 6/21
Shattered porcelain clocks spinning wickedly through a dystopian soundscape while a deal between the fingers and wrists provoke a holy war in the middle of a southern palm reading. Cross-chatter dialect rumbles under ancient tapestries as the subtle echos of caution and weariness dissipate into a fierce vacuum through a meditative paradise. Nothing is off the table for Nashville based, multi-instrumentalist Michael Ruth (Rich Ruth) as his concrete abilities in music so effortlessly sway into the boundless depths of texture and rhythmic disco. Mesmerizing patterns from grinning silhouette ensembles all decapitated and well directed into familiar complexity and the bright hopes of the coming season. Ruth follows up his 2022 sophomore album, “I Survived, It’s Over”, with his second LP on Third Man Records entitled “Water Still Flows”. A cerebral reminder of the fickle partnership between mind and body, “Water Still Flows” is a holographic practice that is both friendly and wholesomely calculated. Full of ambient peaks and hysterical, shape-shifting melodies all colliding like that of romantics during their debut contact under an umbrella of street lights. During the last two years, Ruth has been hard at work amidst the chaos of the world we live in. Carefully shaping what he says is, ‘the best thing I’ve created and encapsulates every piece of me that has been growing over the years - the tension, the solitude, the anxiety, the search for something bigger than myself.’
The album truly explores this wide range of sonic telepathy and visual olympics. With tracks like “Crying in the Trees” and “Aspiring to the Sky” eagerly bridging the optimistic ear to its rightful listener, Ruth is able to set a well lit stage with labored light and multi-layered scenery all breathing and gasping for the sincere clarity found in the musician’s repertoire of unlimited talent. The album’s first single, “No Muscle, No Memory” is a hypnotic race from point A to point D in this isolated, motion picture mirage. An enlightening relationship of notes all based on universal energy manifested and properly distributed from ancient comforts displayed in some soaked prayer. With a choir of screaming engines and vertebrae patterns all effortlessly coexisting together, Ruth produces his most electrifying effort yet with “Water Still Flows”. A patient reflection of the self and its complicated reactions to the land and the air we breath. A body of work both saturated in freedom and excitement. A testament to just how much Ruth is willing to conjure up within himself to get the job done.
Set for release this summer, the musician will be hitting the road towards the end of the month and will carry on through early May and late June leading up to the album’s highly anticipated release. Keep up with the happenings via Ruth’s social media/web site as well TMR headquarters.
