Wild Wild Geese
Sometime around 2008 guitarist Rob Ruin and drummer John Jaquiss quit the Chapel Hill band Spider Bags. Over the course of two years, many cross country tours and several re-cording sessions, they had forged a bond. Their continued collaboration was a natural pro-gression, and it wasn’t long thereafter that wild wild geese was born.
The lineup became solidified with the addition of Kent Howard (also of Americans in France), whose melodic and powerful bass lines gave the group its anchor. Providing the proverbial icing to the group’s cake was Nathan Toben, a talented multi-instrumentalist who brought a youthful enthusiasm and a keen ear for guitar and keyboard work that deftly com-plemented Rob’s songs.
In early 2010 they got together with engineer William Evans of Raleigh based garage band Whatever Brains. They assembled a simple recording setup and tracked all of sorry, earth mostly live in the basement of Rob’s Durham home. Sorry, earth is an explosive sonic docu-ment that bristles at the edges with tension; a melodic menagerie of soaring guitars, pummel-ing drums and sardonic lyrics. In some ways the record may be about finding one’s place in a world gone awry and the struggle to contain self destructive behaviors.
