A year after his first album ("Sea", also on N5md), Last Days come back with an equally calm and modest, but considerably enriched new album, in which the long drony soundscapes are replaced with more accoustic sounds, strings and calm pads. An emotional, flowing album in the pure N5md vein, "These Places Are Now Ruin" follows well the label's evolution towards more accoustic sonorities, and does it with brio. A beautiful home-listening albums for rainy days.