“You’ve gotten a lot better” and its variants are often well-intentioned compliments that are relatively easy to be seen as coming from the back of a hand. After all, it means you weren’t as good as the current version of you, and for the sensitive, that’s enough to nosedive into a pillow. Elite Gymnastics, a band we featured when they released Neu! ’92 have indeed gotten a lot better. If you listened to their last project and had to pick the genre they best represented out of a lineup, you would have most likely chosen chillwave. That’s what I did. But now with their two album project Ruin 1 and Ruin 2, the duo has transformed into a pop-rock group with house music leanings and songs that still have the rawness of something made feet away from your mattress.
On “So Close To Paradise” they craft a record that could have been a house hit in early ’90s London, the kind of song that would later surface on a top club hits of 1992 CD in a Sam Goody rack. Both sides of Ruin are full of different sounds and styles, and some of it even reminds me of the soundtrack to the mid ’90s video game Killer Instinct. And they also released it for free.
Hit the skip to download Ruin 1 and Ruin 2.Download: Elite Gymnastics – Ruin 1 [Direct Link]
Download: Elite Gymnastics – Ruin 2 [Direct Link]