Tears Run Rings has a talent for marrying hauntingly beautiful textures and pop melodies. In Distance, their second album on Clairecords, they have refined their lush, melencholy sound and set it to a beat informed by Factory Records.
1. Happiness 3
2. Forgotten
3. Inertia
4. Reunion
5. Distance
6. Divided
7. Forever
8. Compromise
9. Innocent
10. Happiness 4
- Tears Run Rings second album Distance will be released Clairecords August 24th, 2010
- Distance was released in Japan with 2 bonus tracks
- A vinyl issue of Distance is in the works
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About Tears Run Rings
Laura Watling - vocals & bass
Matthew Bice - vocals & guitar
Ed Mazzucco - guitar
Dwayne Palasek - drums
- The track "Mind the Wires" is featured in the Gregg Araki's (The Doom Generation, Mysterious Skin) film KABOOM
- Ed and Laura live in Portland, Mathew in San Francisco, and Dwayne lives in LA
- The band writes their songs mainly by sharing tracks over the internet. They record in 3 separate studios
- Tears Run Rings has 3 releases to date A Question and an Answer EP (2007), Always, Sometimes, Seldom, Never (2008), and Distance (2010)
- Dwayne, Laura, and Ed began working together in the 1990s in the twee-pop outfit The Autocollants
- Tears Run Rings was born out of an Autocollants reunion show in 2005. Matthew joined on vocals & guitar one year later
- Matthew & Ed also run Shelflife Records (Thieves Like Us, The Radio Dept.)
- Ed and Laura are married
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Praise for Distance
"I know people throw this word away very carelessly these days but the fact of the matter is that "Distance" is a masterpiece."
– Burning World
"The Sophomore album is always an important part of a bands career. It signifies for one that the first album was not a one and done outing. Also, the second album can be a change to showcase a change and more clear cut direction that they want to take. What Tears Run Rings do with theirs, is showcase and upgrade their old sound. What 'Distance' does, is takes the working formula of the previous successful album and builds upon it. This is not a shoe-gaze album that is a particularly in your face 'wall of sound' style all the way through nor it is extremely original, taking cues from 'Mazzy Star' and the likes. Each song on the album does have those moments however, but not right away. Each one builds up to a dramatic and brilliant finish that has raw beauty..."
– Music Rise from the Ashes
"Die hemelse gitaren en prachtige samenzang van Laura Watling en Matthew Bice maken mijn dag meteen goed. De echte shoegazeliefhebber moet hiervan gewoon kwijlen, kwijlen zeg ik u!"
– Hadrian est ou?
