PRE-ORDER: TVAM "Ruins" LP (Crystal Clear VInyl)

TVAM returns with news of his new album, Ruins, which is due to be
released on ‘Crystal Clear’ vinyl on 27 February via Invada Records.

The follow-up to High Art Lite, Ruins is an album shaped by grief,
reflection, and transformation; a record that captures both the weight
of loss and the strange beauty that comes with it. Written after a
self-imposed break from songwriting, it represents a shift in focus
and perspective for Joseph Oxley. “I wanted to step away from what
I thought I was supposed to make,” he explains. “The worst advice
anyone can give you is, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ It’s always broken.
It always needs fixing.”

At its core, Ruins explores loss not as emptiness but as presence,
something that reshapes the world around you. The album finds
Oxley wrestling with the dualities of human experience: the tension
between what’s said and unsaid, between humanism and nihilism,
public and private, despair and acceptance. “Hope and despair don’t
cancel each other out,” he says. “They can co-exist — that’s what makes
it feel real.”

Somewhere within a lifetime of repeats, reruns, and reboots, TVAM
lives, crafting work that touches on our memories while toying with
our fears, creating a world in which broadcast becomes performance.
Since his debut album Psychic Data burst from a small bedroom
studio in Wigan, TVAM has defined the sound and spectacle of
nostalgia’s grip on modern life, from the sloganeering of “Porsche
Majeure” to the electioneering of “Semantics,” his music has gained
daytime playlisting on BBC 6 Music and has been featured on TV
including groundbreaking series Succession.

Musically, Ruins is expansive and immersive. Dark but magical, it is
filled with reverb-drenched synths, fractured textures and hammer-
blow snares. Guitars weave through the mix with a newfound
restraint, creating space for atmosphere and emotion to take centre
stage. “Broken reality” textures collide with driving rhythms, recalling
the cinematic pulse of Floodland-era The Sisters of Mercy, and the
melodic melancholy of Disintegration-era The Cure. The result is a
record that finds beauty in dissonance and light in the wreckage.

Track List:

01 Comfort Collar
02 The Gloom
03 The Words
04 Real Life
05 Powder Blue
06 Follow Me Home
07 Winter Rose
08 In Memory
09 Love Like Glue
10 Sweetness & Light
11 The Haunted

street date 2/27/26