Runnner - Always Repeating - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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. InchIt'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,Inch Weinman explains. InchI 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.Inch 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. InchI began to feel like all of the people I knew and had met maybe never really existed,Inch Weinman explains. InchI 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