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Levi Dylan Sikes, the songwriter behind the Indiana-based project Former Ruins, has been active since 2017, a year after the birth of his first child. “It was a calling toward fatherhood, and the sense that my life was meant to be generative, as it were, that coincided with my efforts to begin writing songs again after pretty much giving up my junior year of college,” Sikes observes. “Of course, it's meant I haven’t been free to pursue music at any cost by having a family first." He adds, "Which is probably a very good thing." Anchored by a deeply-considered Christian vision of life, Sikes invites listeners into a lyrically-rich world by way of an unvarnished, tender baritone. Merging 80s-flavored guitar and bass lines, polyrhythms, and atmospheric textures, Former Ruins songs have been likened by one listener to "hearing Nick Cave and Flannery O'Connor share a conversation in the kitchen."
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