Poison Ruïn is new band from Philadelphia which started as the solo endeavour of a guy called Mac but then developed into a band. As Mac explains in an interview, he recorded the material that makes up their selftitled debut by himself – aiming for a ‘dark age’ sound. The combination of synth, darkwave (or whatever you want to call it) with post-punk has become almost a natural pairing these days, but Poison Ruïn really do it well. The LP that came out on Urge Records last month consists of 10 tracks that were originally created for two cassette EPs, the first of which was released about a year ago.
