The debut album from Tiny Ruins features songs composed & performed by Hollie Fullbrook. It follows a year spent collaborating & performing internationally in which the young artist's worldly voice & stories would connect with audiences as distant as Northern Spain & with artists including Joanna Newsom, Beach House & Holly Throsby.

Both vocally & instrumentally, 'Some Were Meant For Sea' exists in dappled warmness: Fullbrook's striking timbre recalling a smooth Jolie Holland & conjuring a similar natural imagery born from earth & sea. Bound by their delicate nature, her songs lay within a space & time all their own: "Little Notes" a lover's airborne ode, the impressionistic, wanting "Priest With Balloons" & the beguiling "Running Through The Night".

Recorded in a diminutive hall, once the local school of South Gippsland's Morraya, Australia, Fullbrook would work with producer J Walker (Holly Throsby, CW Stoneking, Machine Translations) and between the pair, some cello (bowed and also de-tuned & plucked as a double bass), violin, percussion, piano & accordion were added to the otherwise bare-boned songs, which were all recorded entirely live, with guitar and vocals laid simultaneously.

It is a mannered album, one whose traditional arrangements & classic key are gently commanding & reminiscent of folk's greatest storytellers: Carole King, The Unthanks & Richard Thompson. She writes with humour and fantasy of cats in hallways, journeys taking flight on moonlight, priests who float into the sky on strings of balloons.