Runnner: Like Dying Stars, We're Reaching Out - Cloudy
Runnner: Like Dying Stars, We're Reaching Out - Cloudy
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Runnner
Label: Run for Cover
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 810097912892
Genre: Rock
Cloudy Vinyl. For the last five years, Los Angeles-based musician Noah Weinman has been Runnner, and for much of those five years, Runnner has been working. Working on his 2021 collection album, Always Repeating; working as a producer on the Skullcrusher records; and, of course, working towards his debut full-length, Like Dying Stars, We're Reaching Out. From LA to Ohio and the Northeast and back, he's been deep in the craft of sound. This is music made at home, using anything and everything: cell phones and handheld tape recorders, the hum of an a/c unit, voicemails from friends. Rubbing cardboard together, stretching acoustic sounds out to near liquid, or stacking delay pedals at random to scramble the smoothness of a song can make something known into something unknown - something ordinary into something cosmic. These are songs where the edges have been left deliberately rough because perfection invites predictability, and imperfection imbalances, and those imbalances ask the listener to listen again, and again. And in that listening, the sound can become earnest, can ask a question, can hold a conversation. "I was sifting through my demos trying to decide what songs would go on the album, and I sort of started to notice this theme about the limits of language," explains Weinman. "You're trying to articulate something to someone, and it either doesn't come out right or you end up not saying anything at all. It's a pattern I see in my life, just having a hard time expressing myself to the people I'm close with." So it's no surprise that from a young age, Noah was drawn to other modes of expression: first studying trumpet and jazz, then falling into guitars, banjo, pianos and synths, and along with them discovering a love for stitching together songs and recordings. "It wasn't until I got out of the studio environment and started recording at home that it became something I really love doing," he says. Like Dying Stars, We're Reaching Out is the result of years of writing, recording, and tinkering in Weinman's home, a lovingly crafted patchwork of organic instrumentation and otherworldly digital manipulation. The unexpected sounds and lush production elevate Weinman's already impressive skill for melody and warm vocals, always pivoting between sparse intimacy and sweeping grandeur at the right moments. "I think I just want to try to make sounds that are a little original, that you couldn't easily identify," he explains. "But I get there by keeping my options pretty limited. I only have one input, so I don't record things in stereo; I only have about three microphones and a few instruments, and I try not to use MIDI. I keep the ingredient list short, but that pushes me to be more creative in the genesis of certain sounds."
Tracks:
1.1 plexiglass
1.2 i only sing about food
1.3 bike again
1.4 raincoat
1.5 chess with friends
1.6 reach
1.7 noah needs a haircut
1.8 runnning in place at the edge of the map
1.9 scabpicker
1.10 string
1.11 nye
1.12 a map for your birthday
