Runnner Like Dying Stars, We're Reaching Out Cloudy Clear Vinyl Edition

For the last five years, Los Angeles-based musician Noah Weinmanhas been Runnner, and for much of those five years, Runnnerhas been working. Working on his 2021 collection album, AlwaysRepeating; working as a producer on the Skullcrusher records; and,of course, working towards his debut full-length,Like Dying Stars,We're Reaching Out. This is music made at home, using anythingand everything: cell phones and handheld tape recorders, the humof an a/c unit, voicemails from friends. These are songs where theedges have been left deliberately rough because perfection invitespredictability, and imperfection imbalances, and those imbalancesask the listener to listen again, and again.Like Dying Stars, We're Reaching Out is the result of years ofwriting, recording, and tinkering in Weinman's home, a lovinglycrafted patchwork of organic instrumentation and otherworldly digitalmanipulation. The unexpected sounds and lush production elevateWeinman's already impressive skill for melody and warm vocals,always pivoting between sparse intimacy and sweeping grandeur atthe right moments.With humor and heart, Weinman's lyrics sift through isolation andanxiety in the everyday: ruining the rice, buying shampoo, theway boredom and loneliness are tangled up together. And fromthese fragments, he makes something new, but also somethingalready known and felt at once. Tracks like "i only sing about food,""raincoat," or "chess with friends" explore these different mental andsometimes even physical barriers to communication, while skitteringdrum beats and scrappy acoustics guide the listener throughWeinman's crowded thoughts.Often Like Dying Stars, We're Reaching Out sounds like life caughtinside a moment, unsure of what comes next, but there is hope andlightness here too. Despite our inability to be what we want to be,to know where we are going, feel we belong, to be present, and topresent ourselves fully and completely to the world, Runnner offersthat perhaps it's this l...