Tairrie B and Mick Murphy, the husband and wife duo behind My Ruin, have returned with the band SWTEVL. The inspiration for this outfit’s name came from Derringer‘s 1977 album “Sweet Evil“. With My Ruin now on a ‘permanent hiatus’, this new project represents the main musical focus from the duo.
Their debut single “Hellzapoppin’” was released today, October 13th, along with its official video. The band’s debut double album “Very Truly Yours“, will be out on December 15th. Speaking of the project, Tairrie offered:
“After 9 studio albums and years of touring, we decided to put My Ruin on a permanent hiatus and made the life-changing move from my hometown of Los Angeles, California to Mick‘s hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee where we spent 2022 into 2023 hyper-focused on making new music under a new moniker.
We quietly wrote, recorded & produced 30 new songs (20 originals & 10 covers) in our home studio The Magick Room After 2022 came to a fitful end with two years of living through the chaos of a worldwide pandemic and the politics which accompanied it, like most of America, we were mentally exhausted.
Reflecting on the past two decades, we also realized that we were not the same people we were when we lived in L.A. Like artists do, we changed and grew. Not wanting to revamp the past musically or relive those songs emotionally, we felt it was time to cut loose, kick off the dust and recharge our creative batteries.
We took our time recording as we wanted to recapture our rock love of collaboration and reemerge reinvigorated with a forward-thinking, positive new perspective and approach to our songwriting with themes addressing who we are now as Gen Xers as opposed to who we were when we first met 23 years ago.
With age comes introspection and with that in mind, SWTEVL doesn’t spell the end of a musical relationship but rather the beginning of a new one as we move brazenly into our next chapter, without apology.”
