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RFC254LPC3

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2023-02-17

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Runner

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Run For Cover Records

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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.&nbsp;

“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.&nbsp;

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&nbsp; 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.”

This musical approach is reflected in Runnner’s lyrics as well, where
 the familiar is made unfamiliar, and then familiar again. With humor 
and heart, Weinman sifts through isolation and anxiety in the everyday: 
ruining the rice, buying shampoo, the way boredom and loneliness are 
tangled up together. And from these fragments, he makes something new, 
but also something already known and felt at once. “A lot of the songs 
have this narrative arc of rising tension that just leads to me not 
saying or doing anything,” he says. “It’s like there’s a signal loss 
between thought and speech.” Tracks like “I Only Sing About Food,” 
“Raincoat,” or “Chess With Friends” explore these different mental and 
sometimes even physical barriers to communication, while skittering drum
 beats and scrappy acoustics guide the listener through Weinman’s 
crowded thoughts. On mid-album standout “Running In Place At The Edge of
 The Map,” Weinman likens his catatonic self on the couch to a video 
game avatar stuck at the end of its digital space with nowhere left to 
go–tying the image to our desperate attempts to be who we want to be, 
despite knowing that our attempts will fall short.

Often Like Dying Stars, We’re Reaching Out sounds like life caught 
inside a moment, unsure of what comes next, but there is hope and 
lightness here too. The album’s final track “A Map For Your Birthday” 
closes with the lines “like dying stars, we’re reaching out / so much i 
can’t say / but you nodded anyway.” Despite our inability to be what we 
want to be, to know where we are going, feel we belong, to be present, 
and to present ourselves fully and completely to the world, Runnner 
offers that perhaps it’s this longing to know one another, to understand
 each other when we’re incoherent or when the words just don’t come, 
that just might connect us.&nbsp;

Like Dying Stars, We're Reaching Out

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