CAVETOWN’S NEW ALBUM ‘RUNNING WITH SCISSORS’ IS OUT NOW

Cavetown, the moniker of UK-born artist Robin Skinner, has released his new album, Running With Scissors, out now via Futures Music Group / Virgin Music Group. The record marks a defining moment in Skinner’s career: an emotionally expansive body of work that captures the disorienting threshold between youth and adulthood, braided together sonically through hyper-pop, heavy guitars, and his signature dream-pop sounds.

Released recently alongside the album is the lead single and music video for “Cryptid”, a song and short film that explores Skinner’s experience as a transgender person at a moment when trans rights, safety, and even visibility are being threatened. In the video, “cryptids” live underground, hidden away by a world that fears and misunderstands them, until they finally emerge to challenge the narratives imposed upon them. While the video centers the trans experience and incorporates trans symbolism throughout, Skinner’s intention is broader: to hold up a mirror to how society has historically recast many communities, Black, queer, immigrant, disabled, and others, as “other. “In allowing myself to love,” Skinner says, “I’ve also allowed myself to feel anger about things I would usually ignore. I hope this feels empowering for people to sing back.”

Australian fans have the chance to hear “Cryptid” live when Cavetown returns in February, appearing nationally at Laneway Festival alongside his own headline shows at Enmore Theatre, Sydney on 11 Feb and Palais Theatre, Melbourne on 12 Feb. Head to handsometours.com for tickets.

With Running With Scissors, Cavetown steps fully into adulthood without abandoning the millions of listeners who have grown up alongside him. “I don’t want this to feel like it’s for kids,” Skinner says. “Because I’m not a kid anymore. I want it to feel like we’re moving forward together.”

Running With Scissors is out now