KAPUT’s use of organic percussive tones to set both a frantic and headlong and languid beat in parallel on “Runner” mirrors the song’s themes perfectly. The way you can feel anxious and in a hurry while caught up in dreamlike moments in passages of fever dream calm when intrusive thoughts and ghosts of past and current concerns can get mixed up in distracting you from being in the moment. But in the rattles, clicks, clinks throughout the song sound like a shaking off of these drags on the mind. The resonant piano alongside Nadia Garofalo’s almost deadpan but more slightly weary vocal delivery casts the song in a seeming context of having been through this struggle before of working through getting to be able to reach a point of focus clear of the static of what’s been limiting you and tripping up the progress you’d like to be making. The rich textural rhythms and haunting spaciousness of the song gives it a truly unique sound that while stylistically is adjacent to post-punk is very much its own thing. Listen to “Runner” on Spotify and follow Chicago’s KAPUT at the links below.
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