#run for cover

[pretendpopstar]

You're Gonna Miss It All by Modern Baseball

[druidpup]

Been super manic this weekend, had the fellas over and we whipped up a little demo, threw some temp vox on it last night to test the vibe and i think there's something here

[snazzystarlight]

I love this song! This is "Run For Cover" by The Killers as I see it because of synesthesia!

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[dustedmagazine]

Horse Jumper of Love — Disaster Trick (Run for Cover)

Photo by Pond Creative

Horse Jumper of Love’s second album blows out introspective songs into wailing crescendos. Guitars bristle, flare and dissolve into fuzz, while quiet, contemplative lyrics unfold in the hurricane’s unblinking eye. “Wink,” the first single, spools out in chilled post-rocking chords, drums kicking up dust in the long sustained intervals. The singer, Dmitri Giannopoulos, sings in a shrugging, self-effacing tenor, navigating twisty melodies with an unhurried, unbothered nonchalance. The song is a battering ram and a weighted blanket, equal parts brute force and solace.

The music has undergone a shift since Heartbreak Rules, from 2023, an album I liked a lot. That record was a mostly solo endeavor, just Giannopoulos singing songs he’d knocked out during COVID quarantine and John Margaris coming in late to play a few piano parts. This one is much more of a band effort. Margaris plays bass throughout, and James Doran drums. There are guest appearances from of-the-moment indie rockers including Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman, MJ Lenderman and Ella Williams of Squirrel Flower. Though still morose and inward-looking, the songs bloom into sprawling, distorted, nocturnal flower. They are larger but very personal.

“Snow Angel,” for instance, establishes a slow acoustic strum, then blows it to bits with fuzz. The sound coils and uncoils, storming ahead with inexorable anthemic vigor, then turning inward on itself in wounded dissonance. “Curtain” strips back the Horse Jumper experience to flared electric chords and vocals. The song digs into the bleakest existential questions—the self, its relation with others, mortality — in clean, echoing isolation. Giannopoulos croons, “Do you think yours is the only point of view? Do you that think others haven’t done it, too? Did you follow that nasty rule? You wave that goodbye and they close the black curtain on you.”

The sound is mesmerizing, pitched somewhere between Polvo’s guitar-wrenching abstractions and David Grubbs’ surreal sung poetry and Bedhead but with more explosions. Ovlov comes to mind, too, in the tactile onslaught of distorted guitar sound. Yet the words are good, too, if hard to catch, as they bob up to the surface of guitar skree, then sink under again. “Lip Reader” has one of the disc’s most arresting images, in a verse that goes, “You were singing your song in the doorway/I could see you in the other room/like a lip reader from the other side/you’re from another side.”  The line between the living and the dead, the real and the imagined, is wavery and blurred.

At times, Giannopoulos recalls other, far more acoustically centered artists. The spare, stark “Word,” for instance, sounds a good bit like whispery, gothic Boduf songs. The trick he’s mastered, however, is hitching vulnerability to blaring, swelling, overwhelming guitar sounds. It’s not often that music this loud and distorted can break your heart.

Jennifer Kelly

[mindlessmutant]

Fiddlehead on Phoenix 200

[weareall1988]

David Sanborn - Run For Cover (1981)

Just heard about his passing and wanted to dedicate this post to him. My dad had shown me this track I think sometime last year, and I've been really digging this album ever since. I grew up listening to a lot of smooth jazz, and David Sanborn was one of those artists that I came across. RIP to one of the greats.

[runforcoverrecords]

Introducing ANTARCTICA - the new album from waveform* which will be released May 12th, 2023 via Run For Cover Records

First single “Lonely” is out everywhere now, and pre-orders for vinyl & new merch are available in our webstore

[mitchellwojcik]

basement - 9/29/2024

[hotbukowski]

Its September?!

[pretendpopstar]

Holy Ghost by Modern Baseball

This is one of my favorite in my collection >:)

I can't choose a favorite song from it so I won't.

[druidpup]

Really in my Run For Cover bag rn, here is a wip of a new song im working on

[withbellzon]

[richs-pics]

A rabbit escapes from the oncoming human