Always Repeating

by Runnner

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mattaustin95 Beautiful indie folk bops to lose yourself in. carefully crafted and brilliantly produced; turn off all the lights, close your eyes and let this album wash over you. Favorite track: Urgent Care.

Casey Foor make me cry Favorite track: Ur Name on a Grain of Rice.

gannonhanevold One of the definitive pieces of indie folk of the last three years. An absolutely phenomenal record, with lyrical introspection and warm vocals. Favorite track: New Sublet.

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1.	Monochrome 03:19	lyrics
it snowed last night back in ohio i'm in la and warm but it's so fucking dry though you're in my head monochromatic i tried to make it fade but got it stuck in static couldn't find a shade to paint it over when everything i said felt like a lie i was scared to let you cut me open cuz you're not gonna like what you find it's halloween we're in your kitchen talking shit about our friends and eating chicken you went upstairs i stole outside i know it's late but i could drink some more tonight you moved away off to ann arbor and i'm a bum living at home and getting farther from all my friends they're sliding slowly i woke up dead inside my bed and didn't notice i wish i was drunk enough to call you cuz i've run out of things to sing about i've been trying to draw you with my eyes closed and you're not gonna like how it turned out
2.	Urgent Care 02:17	lyrics
the road gets plowed trudging through the frozen clover i feel better now still i'm always going over my phone goes off got rejected from a new job in the parking lot coming up with different problems you were whom i'd hoped to see sitting in your favorite chair the third time this week that we've both been here at urgent care
3.	Awash 03:09	lyrics
i’m awash clothed in curtain peeling off so uncertain talking loud barely breathing move around split the season carving out through the gap better now but there's no going back
4.	Bodysurfing 03:44	lyrics
salted stone sinking slow overthrown undertowed slid upstream silently no retreat through the crease overtaken waiting for a wave out alone with nothing else to save me it's been a year since we last spoke and i'm still here losing hope and if i go before you wanted would you cut the rope? leave me haunted? told myself it's time to make a change but i just wanted everything the same just a kid unfurling out adrift bodysurfing another time we still don't talk you let it rain you washed me off
5.	Trundle Bed 03:31	lyrics
tiny in the darkness where we couldn't see the moon staring at the ceiling of your furnished rented room wondering like thrusts at the plaster overhead imagining the atlas from a wooden trundle bed though i struggle to remember how the growing pains clutched tight i think about you often but it's so often late at night and someday i'd like to ask if all this distance feels all right but we don't talk much and when we do we always fight is it quiet where you are? are you finding peace of mind? i'm assembling the pieces biting fingers biding time do you know how it feels? want you to know how it feels
6.	Heliotrope 03:07	lyrics
did i ruin the moment? laying down in your grass now and i'm burning my skin again staring wide-eyed and stressed out cuz it's nice outside and that makes me feel stupid for letting myself get so low a m i wasting the weekend now? freaking out under the heliotropes i'm dragging my forearms never as fun as we thought i'd be i'm combing through bad jokes i wrote to tell in your company cuz i think by now i've said too much on everything i feel your fingers go limp in my hand and i should have just asked you is this the conversation you want to have? is this the conversation you want? what do you want?
7.	New Sublet 03:01	lyrics
always repeating cutting my teeth on atlantic beaches gone unsteady reaching watching my friends leave town providence fleeting out when did it get so loud? now you're seeing it backwards you're struggling to draw your own face sitting drunk on the internet looking at prices of places for cities you don't live in and you've never been you're just getting addicted to starting all over again
8.	Captain Stupido 02:49	lyrics
i feel weird comb your beard and brush your teeth still feel weird beat your meat and go to sleep i think i left my wallet at the club jesus take the wheel cuz i got so much on my mind but i don't think that we can fix it all tonight
9.	Ur Name on a Grain of Rice 05:01	lyrics
i should have said so much to you which is lame but maybe kind of nice like scratchoffs in a birthday card or your name on a grain of rice and i've been sick since seventh grade and it's not terrible but it's too long and we still talk but now it's changed does it hurt more to just move on? maybe i loved you or maybe i wanted to see something through just cuz i never do and i should call but i'm afraid of what you're gonna say notice all the ways i've changed and all the ways i've stayed the same and i hate talking on the phone because my speaking voice is boring and i can't stand to be alone cuz it's so easy to ignore me i'm shouting it now cuz i can't write it down i let it pour out from the sides of my mouth all sequined and stoned sucking in through my teeth i'm taking it home with me, still learning to speak
10.	Skewed 01:40	lyrics
poured out from my split mouth how i don't want to go home cuz i don't drive drunk anymore woke with the pattern on my face trying to get off to the right start but it's like reaching for a rope in the dark cuz i'm radiating angling out of frame

about

Always Repeating, Runnner’s debut for Run For Cover Records, yearns for a sense of place.
The project of the now LA-based songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Noah Weinman, Runnner’s poignant reflections on the isolation and anxiety caused by a sense of rootlessness radiate with wit and charm. While writing the songs that now span Always Repeating, he floated between Providence, Los Angeles, and New York. “It’s like I sing about these places yearning to be there, but also knowing full well that what I’m really missing is the people I met and the experiences I had,” Weinman explains. “I get restless and frustrated in my present, and romanticize my past while pushing myself into some different chapter—one that usually starts with me in a dark place and some songs in my journal. These songs end up being the constant for me over the years.” Always Repeating, self-produced and recorded wherever he called home at the time, documents this cycle of looking back and moving forward, of alienation changing to reconciliation.

The 10-track collection is composed of five re-recorded versions of songs that appeared on Runnner’s 2017 debut, Awash, and 2020’s One of One EP. Although the songs were written over the course of three years, all find Weinman grappling with the same thing: feelings of uncertainty about his life. After leaving college, his friends, and his beloved life in Ohio, Weinman made the reluctant decision to move back to his hometown of Los Angeles; not because he wanted to, but because he wasn’t sure where else to go. It was an extremely isolating time and that existential dread pervades the music. “I began to feel like all of the people I knew and had met maybe never really existed,” Weinman explains. “I fell out of touch with everyone. It was really lonely. I wrote these songs as a way of reaching out and trying to reconnect. It’s interesting that the feelings I had then overlap with the feelings I’ve had in the past year, where everybody feels distant and far away.”

For Weinman, Runnner is primarily a solo endeavor with an ever-expanding musical community of musicians collaborating on his albums and shows, which at times have been known to feature up to a 7-piece live band (he also has a burgeoning career as a producer, notably working on Skullcrusher’s critically-acclaimed debut EP for Secretly Canadian). Weinman completed Always Repeating last fall in Western Massachusetts and Woodstock using a mobile studio set-up. He played the majority of the instruments himself, including guitar, bass, trumpet, banjo, piano and synth. The goal was to create the perfect balance of intimate and melancholy songwriting through the lens of hi-fi/lo-fi dynamics, inspired by his favorite artists like Bon Iver, the Microphones, and Julien Baker. “I want it to feel honest and homemade and a little rough around the edges, but where the roughness doesn’t preclude somebody from engaging with the song,” Weinman explains. “Like you’re in the room listening to it all be made. I tried to preserve some artifacts of the process to help it feel present.”

The songs draw from personal emotions and experiences—with Weinman usually more interested in posing questions than in always providing answers—and are sometimes inspired by the works of writers such as Angela Pelster, Max Porter and Donald Barthelme. “Awash” embodies the feeling of being lost and adrift through its aching melody and acoustic riffs, while the pulsating “Urgent Care” uses humor and light-heartedness to touch on Weinman’s very real anxiety. The relatable album opener, “Monochrome,” resonates as he tries fruitlessly to recall mundane and insignificant moments from his past. While the songs are about feeling alone, they also offer the hand of connection. “The act of writing songs and the time being alone making songs has been a way for me to work through those feelings,” Weinman says. “I write songs hoping for connection: if someone else feels less alone from listening to my music then I might also feel less alone.” He is looking towards the future, but he also knows that the songs on Always Repeating probably haven’t finished playing themselves out–and they probably never will.

Always Repeating ultimately tells the start of Weinman’s journey as Runnner, and his cyclical feelings of being connected and then disconnected from the world over and over again. This collection of songs reflects a constant, honest search for attachment and a sense of place–and a vulnerability that empathizes with listeners who may face that same challenge. “When I first left college I was uncertain and afraid, and I knew I had changes ahead of me, but I wasn’t sure if I was ready to make them,” he recalls. “I was just circling in my own anxiety and indecision, and now I’m back to recording those same songs again, in a world that is in many ways more uncertain than it was then. Me struggling with loneliness and anxiety is true for all of the music I write. And pandemic or not, these songs would still feel relevant. I went through it then, I’m going through it now, and I’ll probably go through it again in a few years.”

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released July 16, 2021

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Runnner Los Angeles, California

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Apr 30

Casbah

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May 4

The Independent

San Francisco, CA
May 10

Madame Lou's

Seattle, WA
May 23

The Deaf Institute

Manchester, UK
May 24

Lafayette

London, UK
Jun 1

Prachtwerk

Berlin, Germany

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