Ruami

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Ruami is an album by the American punk group The Clergy, released on Broken Records in 1993, a division of The Corinthian Group, distributed by Benson Music Group. The album was recorded by Mike Lastra with Lastra and the band producing.

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Ouch! Picture The GoGo’s invading the Altar Boy‘s bodies like pod people and forming a garage band with The Clash. This is aggressive punk-oriented rock with enough cool breaks in the pounding to keep it from being deadly. Like reeling in a 200 pound sturgeon – you could break a rod with this puppy. [True Tunes News]

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Fronted by the street-hassling couple of Goth-sparked Christie Simonetti with her stalwart drummer husband Randy, this genre-bending Portland punk grunge band reminded me of The Gits when they played live, with the same implicit mysticism and fervent fanbase, only less blues and more thrash. Also known for roiling the Portland clubs sparring style binaries with Sometime Sunday, there wasn’t a bit of inauthenticity in the band, as their own slam dancing fans attested with brutal body praise. Starting in the live music trenches of different scenes without any corny Gospel flair, their group house was a carnival of dark exiles from Babylon, ex-witches, deep Oregon punks feeding the buzz and bleed of their underground comix sound. Virtually non-existent on the Internet, which doesn’t surprise me, as their cultural suspicion and scorched faith kept poseurs at bay. Key track: «Won’t You Agree» which the inestimable Billy Power (Blenderhead) first placed on his early Pac NW compilation, Songs from the Rain Factory. It’s the band in a lighter moment, but still pleading and soulful and prostate before the ever-loving and awful Tetragram. [Chris Estey, April 2024]

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CD tracklist:

01. Oatmeal – 2:03
02. Log Glasses – 3:03
03. Tree House – 2:06
04. Won’t you Agree – 4:27
05. Earthmaker – 3:30
06. Purity – 3:20
07. No Device – 1:50
08. Friends – 3:08
09. Glimpse – 2:05
10. Hey Mono – 4:19
11. Do What I Don’t – 4:06
12. Free My Skin – 3:14
13. Ruami – 3:22
14. Image – 4:05

Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by Broken Records.

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A full-page advertisement for various new releases on Broken Records, including Ruami by The Clergy, was featured in the October 1993 issue of CCM Magazine.

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