Love Amongst Ruin

When Northwich, England-born drummer Steve Hewitt left Brian Molko's Placebo in September 2007, he had clocked in over ten years with the glam-grunge trio. His next move was to retreat to his home studio with ex-Lamb bassist Jon Thorne. By the end of that year the duo had produced embryonic versions of material that would eventually appear on the 2010 self-titled debut by the Hewitt-led metal-leaning pop/rock outfit Love Amongst Ruin. An original member of Merseyside's Boo Radleys -- as well as occasional drummer with Tim Burgess' pre-Charlatans psych-pop group the Electric C...