About the album

On patching, runo plum isn’t just healing, she’s transforming. The intimate debut LP from the Minnesota-based singer and songwriter gracefully captures the contraction, expansion and release of an intense period of emotional repair, in soft-edged, radiating indie rock. Inspired by a breakup and subsequent healing process, patching is a sonic journey as much as an emotional one. Whether it be longing for friendship, social anxiety, hypochondria spirals, or coming home to a box of stuff from your ex, the album oscillates from rumination to little glimmers of joy to closure and eventually, falling in love all over again.

Each song on patching shifts and prods the same tender center, deftly working to soothe and mend the aches of lost love and anxiety. It’s those gentle moments of reckoning and renewal that form the throughline of patching, with runo’s warm voice and candid lyricism at the helm, acting as a kind of homegrown salve. In these moments of healing comes a crystalline clarity–that patching oneself isn’t only about fixing something–it’s a catalysing act of creation, not so different from the genesis of runo’s painted butterfly on the album’s cover.

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