Dryhouse Ruins

While Dryhouse Ruins itself isn’t in your record collection (yet), band members will be familiar to music fans in Milwaukee and beyond. Guitarist Jim Warchol (Sometime Sweet Susan, Death Blues, Loam), bassist/baritone guitarist Damian Strigens (Testa Rosa, The Lovelies, Field Report), guitarist Jeff Mitchell (Field Report, Paulding Light, solo work), and drummer Ben Derickson (Collections of Colonies of Bees, All Tiny Creatures), have played improvised drone post-rock music together since 2014, drawing inspiration from Can, The Necks, and Sonic Youth’s instrumental brilliance. Four epic tracks recorded by Beau Sorenson of John Vanderslice’s Tiny Telephone Studios in Oakland will see the light of day as Dryhouse Ruins’ debut album later this year. Don’t expect them to play any of those cuts since nothing is ever repeated — as with any practice or gig, these four musicians bound by a singular artistic spirit will just pick a key and go.