runo plum // patching TAPE

アメリカ・ミネソタのインディー作家runo plumが、2025年11月に同国インディーレーベルWinspearからリリースしたアルバムです。

インディーフォーク〜ドリームポップ12曲を収録。

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RELEASE DATE: 14th November 2025

Cassette in norelco case.

Tracklist:

1. Sickness 03:07
2. Lemon Garland 03:11
3. Alley Cat
4. Halfway Up The Lawn 02:16
5. Be Gentle With Me
6. Elephant
7. Locket
8. Pond 03:28
9. Gathering The Pieces
10. The Quiet One
11. Darkness
12. Outro (Angel)

Text excerpt by Winspear:

"[...] On patching, the work of metamorphosis plays as large of a role as the studied process of mending and repair. Across its twelve tracks, runo paints her melodic arcs with a sharp sense of dynamics, crafting songs that capture both the hazy highs and the dark blue lows of all the natural cycles that make the world turn. At the heart of her writing lies a sort of ephemeral magic, one born from her ability to alchemize a deeply formative chapter of life into a vivid scrapbook of songs, capturing the contours of her experiences in shimmering detail.
Buoyed by a conversational, propulsive melody, album opener “Sickness” deals in unhealthy cycles and mundanity. Underbellied by anxiety, it soars and sears, piecing day to day tableaus together with runo’s knack for introspection. Through the lush, strummy daze of “Lemon Garland,” runo works up an antidote to her malaise, conjuring a daydream of community and companionship filled out with finely layered vocals and the spacious resonance of a 12-string guitar. “Halfway Up The Lawn” recounts the messy and deeply human desperation phase of a breakup, unraveling all of the yearning and mental hang-ups over persistent, near-hypnotic instrumentation. “I don’t wanna watch you turn green, but I will” she sings, toying with acceptance, but not entirely giving up the fight.
If the earlier tracks are the daytime, then tracks like “Elephant” and “Locket” comprise the night, or the fertile darkness of the caterpillar in its chrysalis. The sweet sparseness of “Alley Cat” spins out into a whirl of social anxiety with a swoon-worthy twang, unfolding into an outro that suspends the listener in the fluttering sheen of runo’s upper register. “Quiet One” narrows in on runo’s diffuse vulnerability, while “Be Gentle With Me” details the double edged sword of new love in an aching, indie rock freefall with the same unabashed candor of early Julia Jacklin and Big Thief records.
In the reverberating billow of “Gathering the Pieces,” runo circles the tender emotional core of the record, singing its titular lyric burdened by her unease–“gathering the pieces of what I have left from before / time to get patching / it seems that I came up short.” A little despondent, runo gets philosophical, asking “will the emptiness always be empty? / will the loneliness always be pending?” as the instrumentation swells to fill the void.
Put simply, that’s what patching does: It swells to fill the void. A lush debut statement born from precarity and uncertainty, patching is filled with these artful flips—rich sonic moments to balance out emotional vacancies, creating expansion from an ending. It’s only the first few pages in the new chapter of what’s to come from runo plum, whose burgeoning voice as a performer and songwriter are sure to flourish as she enters this expansive new chapter, continuing to examine heartache and renewal with her lucid pen and tender heart."

Artist : runo plum

Label : Winspear

cat no : WSP075cass