Taste Test: RUNAH collapses into the cold, hard ‘Ground’
The folk singer-songwriter drains you dry with her new music video.
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RUNAH possess the kind of voice that suffocates you. A cascading waterfall, taunting you, dragging you, “Ground” weakens the listener for a flesh-eating expedition down, down, down into the earth. “I’d like to stay in this realm / But the ghost in your eyes recognizes my stench,” she sings, creeping along the dirt for a ghoulish, skin-tearing stare into the camera. The visual, directed by Angelica Litsiou, is a taut and unsettling sequence of true horror seeking to suck the very life out of your bones. “I’m unchained,” she sings. Snapping between dusty country and western music, often feeling scorched and apt for a John Wayne excursion, RUNAH wraps her fingers around her words, and the images puff up like black smoke from a cauldron. Pianos and guitars crack and split wide open, her form filling in the dead space. “I’m wild,” she sings, a haunting reminder of her power.
“Ground” anchors RUNAH’s new record, Strange, out May 5 via Beardfire.
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