Cornelia Murr will release her new album Run To The Center on February 28th, via 22TWENTY. The LP was Produced by Luke Temple (Adrienne Lenker, Hand Habits).
Ahead of the album’s arrival, the NY-based singer-songwriter is sharing a new single off the album, “Meantime,” of which she says “”Meantime” is about living in the liminal zone of knowing a given chapter has to end, but not being ready to end it yet. Clinging to it for comfort while you can. Still being able to access empathy/ compassion for the innocence underneath adult dysfunction. Yet the dissonance is growing and it’s getting harder to do so. Knowing the kindest thing is to leave.” The track is accompanies with a video, directed by Emma Pillsbury.

Run To The Center is the follow up to Murr’s 2022’s EP Corridor in 2022 and her 2018 debut Lake Tear of the Clouds, produced by Jim James (My Morning Jacket). For years, Murr tried to make another LP, but extraneous forces kept getting in the way, whether economic or global. But in the spring of 2023 Murr found herself working with her old friend Temple, adding to her extensive list of collaborators, which includes Rodrigo Amarante, Alice Boman, Reverend Baron, and Oracle Sisters among many others.

Run To The Center, mirrors where Murr found herself during its creation—at the geographic heart of the 48 contiguous United State, the small town of Red Cloud, Nebraska (population: 948), There she hunkered down to restore an abandoned house, immersing herself in solitude and reflection. Music flowed out of her during this monastic period of stripping wallpaper in a derelict construction zone in the middle of nowhere. In the last place she expected, she was able to gain a vantage point of her own life and ultimately locate her own center, a grounding force that was inside of her the whole time. “Working on this old house as if it’s my body/If I take care of it it’ll take care of me/Stripping leaves off the centuries/Maps of other worlds/ obscured destinies,”

Murr made the bulk of the record in the Los Angeles area and then Temple joined her in Red Cloud to put finishing touches on it. She says, “we finished the arrangements and vocals in my then barely livable house with a makeshift recording rig I had set up.”

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