I've struggled to enjoy this as quickly as other releases by ALFC. "Ruin" is more Neoclassical than other contributions, and for the most part, is a slow, dirge-like record.

The first two tracks do very little for me, and play out as background music. "Ruin III" is a much needed pace changer, that sounds like it actually wants to have an identity, although that identity could be classed as "Alternative Coronation Themes".

It's not impossible to imagine a Monarch being crowned to this, in a glorious Abbey somewhere in a distant Nation - if that Nation had little interest in being anything other than a cuckolded piece of land trapped as an Exclave between major superpowers.

It's music for an important person, I concur, but if this was a Regal theme, it would be best suited to sum up the 90 day reign of Ninth President William Henry Harrison than anything else - easily forgotten, not remembered for anything, and a general wonder of what could have possibly been.

If only he remembered to wear a Coat...