The Ruiner

Made Out of Babies' third album, THE RUINER, is their most inspired and complex album to date. While the album retains the group's trademark ferocious hybrid of PJ Harvey, Jesus Lizard, Big Black and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, it also finds the band's musical exploration showcasing something unsettling and unique. There's no rock machismo in the sounds of Made Out of Babies, which just might be what makes it so unsettling and unique. There is a glamour and distinction to it's caterwaul. It's beauty will certainly be in the eye of the beholder, but meanwhile it's ugliness is sneaking up from behind. With THE RUINER, Made Out of Babies hit harder then ever, but also with a stupefying creative subtlety and decisive finality.