Runnner announces new album with first single "Awash"

"Awash" is the first single of 2021 from Runnner, aka singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Noah Weinman, following his 2020 EP One of One, and accompanies the announcement of his upcoming 10-track album Always Repeating.

Weinman says of the new song, "I wrote this song in about 15 minutes, though I had been kicking the title around for a bit. It felt like the word I was looking for, but I couldn’t get past it. I was feeling so lost and distant from everything, but I would choke on the language anytime I tried to elaborate. I eventually was able to let the song come simply and not stress the specificity too much."

Always Repeating is self-produced, and saw Weinman play the majority of instruments across the record, including guitar, banjo, trumpet, bass, piano and synth. He explains, "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. 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 album will feature a mix of new songs as well as five re-recorded tracks from previous EPs, including "Heliotrope", "New Sublet", "Ur Name on a Grain of Rice", "Skewed" and his version of Thundercat's "Captain Stupido".

Tracklist:

1. Monochrome
2. Urgent Care
3. Awash
4. Bodysurfing
5. Trundle Bed
6. Heliotrope
7. New Sublet
8. Captain Stupido
9. Ur Name on a Grain of Rice
10. Skewed