Ruins is the tenth studio album by American musician Liz Harris under the stage name Grouper.

In a statement accompanying the announcement of the album's release, Liz Harris described its recording process: Ruins was made in Aljezur, Portugal in 2011 on a residency set up by Galeria Zé dos Bois.

I left the songs the way they came (microwave beep from when power went out after a storm); I hope that the album bears some resemblance to the place that I was in.

[2]While in Portugal, where she stayed in a house owned by the aunt of music director Sérgio Hydalgo, Harris listened to records by Carlos Paredes, Nina Simone and Leonard Cohen.

[8] Philip Sherburne of Pitchfork awarded Ruins the site's "Best New Music" title and dubbed it "achingly beautiful and, given the intensely private nature of most of Grouper's work... almost unnervingly direct.