Searows is the music project of Alec Duckart (he/him), a Pacific Northwest singer-songwriter and guitarist.  Duckart’s intimate, hushed and compelling debut album, Guard Dog, was released independently, as was his subsequent non-album single “House Song.” It’s a sound that often feels like Duckart is singing to you, the listener, alone; influenced by the likes of Sufjan Stevens and Bon Iver, Searows similarly hits a raw nerve.  Duckart has produced all his own music to date, primarily because he knows just how he wants it to sound, but also because “I don’t really know how to communicate it to anyone else yet.” In the year since his debut album came out Searows has done three support tours (Matt Maltese and Leith Ross in the US, and Gracie Abrams in the UK and EU), plus the particular honor of opening for an Ethel Cain show. Searows is now extremely excited to announce his very first headline show, in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, on November 16. This show will celebrate the release of his first EP “End Of The World,” out November 10, 2023, on Matt Maltese’s new label Last Recordings On Earth.   

patching, the intimate debut LP from Minneapolis-based singer and songwriter runo plum, gracefully captures the contraction, expansion and release of an intense period of emotional repair, in soft-edged, radiating indie rock. A lush debut statement born from heartbreak, patching is filled with rich sonic moments that balance out emotional vacancies, creating expansion from an ending. The record’s unbridled sincerity isn’t anything new for runo plum, who’s been writing and quietly sharing bedroom dispatches of her intricate folk for a half-decade. During the pandemic years, she steadily caught the ears of a widening circle of listeners and began independently releasing a series of singles and EPs, all while cutting her teeth on the live side supporting Searows, Angel Olsen and Hovvdy. Cataloging the double edged sword of love and loss in an aching freefall of indie rock with the same unabashed candor of early Julia Jacklin and Big Thief records, patching was recorded in a cabin in rural Vermont over the course of two weeks. Together with Lutalo, the Minnesota-born, Vermont-based musician and producer and runo’s collaborator, instrumentalist and girlfriend Noa Francis, the trio centered the honeyed, time-worn timbre of a centenarian acoustic guitar and the easeful warmth of runo’s voice. Across patching’s twelve tracks, runo paints melodic arcs that swirl and tumble, crafting songs that capture both the hazy highs and the dark blue lows of all the natural cycles that make the world turn.