Band : My Ruin
Album title : Ghosts And Good Stories
Label : Tiefdruck Musik
Distributor : Suburban
Release date : 28th August 2010
Release : CD

If There’ anyone who deserves a price for persistence it’s Tairrie B. Just read the interview elsewhere in this magazine. For some reason she could never manage to get the same success and respect she got while she was the driving force behind Manhole, her first band mid 90. Never the less she and her husband guitarist Mick Murphy never thought of calling it quits. ‘Ghosts And Good Stories’ is already their sixth album as My Ruin and than we didn’t even count the best off’s, live albums and dvd’s they got out there. Very impressive if you ask us. But unfortunately this time around we are sure that again this new record will not change one thing. Unless a miracle occurs. Does that mean this cd sucks? Hell no. Tairrie has always done things here way because for her that was the right way. Something that asks a lot of courage in this fucked up music world. She always said what was on her mind even if some people didn’t like what she was saying, nothing or no one could stop her. Thanx to her past as a rap artist she has her way with words. She knows how to say things. A lot of times she’s like an atom bomb of emotions that goes of. Every song she sings is like a story. She tells us stories, real stories. Things that she witnessed in het personal life. Things that are real and really get to you if you take a minute to think about. Tracks like ‘Digging For Ghosts’, ‘Money Shot’ and ‘My Saviour’ mean something. Don’t expect sing a longs because that’s  not what My Ruin is about. That’s also the weakness of the band. This is reality and a lot of people can’t handle reality. Tairrie tells it like it is. Just take her love/hate relationship with her hometown LA. She sums it up in ‘La Cuidad’. Not what you call the next billboard number 1 hit but just sit back and listen to what she has to say. It makes sense. After almost 20 years in the frontlines Tairrie still believes what she’s doing and if she doesn’t get the credit for that she won’t lose any sleep over it because this is what she was mend to do. She’s happy and nothing else matters. Of course some people think otherwise but we have nothing than respect for this attitude. Someone should give her the number of Corey Taylor. We’re sure that those two could make magic together once they’re locked up in a studio.