With their third album 'Olympic Girls' on its way and the release of their new single 'School Of Design', we thought it would be only fitting for New Zealand band Tiny Ruins to be our next featured artist.

Originally conceived as the solo project of New Zealand singer-songwriter Hollie Fullbrook, Tiny Ruins are creating quite a stir in the industry with some pretty big milestones on the horizon. 

The full band includes bassist Cass Basil, drummer Alex Freer, guitarist Tom Healy and lead singer Hollie Fullbrook. Their upcoming album is the first release since their 2016 single 'Dream Wave', which was recorded and produced by David Lynch and chosen by Lorde for the Hunger Games soundtrack blueprint.

To celebrate the new album and today's single release, we spoke with Fullbrook about to discuss what's to come for the NZ four-piece.

1. What was the first instrument you learnt? 

The cello.

2. I hear you play the guitar that your Mum used to play. How much has family influenced your music?

I picked up my mum's guitar when I was a teenager and it was the guitar I wrote on for many years. It's an old 70s Japanese Suzuki that I'm really fond of. She saved up and bought it in Spain when she was in her early twenties. It has a kind of ivy-patterned inlay. I always thought of it as a cowboy's guitar. It's not the greatest sounding guitar of all time but it has a lot of charm. For fear of losing or breaking it, I don't tour with it. Mum encouraged us to learn an instrument as she'd not been able to as a kid and felt like she'd missed out. It was something she prioritised. I was lucky because I loved music and took to it enthusiastically. None of the rest of my family are particularly musical though; my constant practising probably put my brothers off.

3. It seems like you’ve got a lot going on with the release of your new single ‘Olympic Girls’ and a bunch of tour dates across Australia, New Zealand and Europe, is there anything else exciting coming up you can share with us?

Our album by the same name 'Olympic Girls' comes out on Feb 1st on Milk! Records, so we are gearing up to that and then getting ready for a busy year touring it as a band.