CORNELIA MURR

RUN TO THE CENTER

THE new LP out Feb 28th

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Run to the Center as an album perfects Cornelia Murr’s already established signature style; songs with structures of unpredictable elegance that fracture conventional rules. She climbs us higher in a supreme moment, she leads us into a sudden harbor where a fresh rhythmic change awaits, she gives us an intro of bullfrog, a touch of strings, a kiss of horns, sustaining arches of synth, dabs of found object percussion and playful keyboards moving like a caterpillar staircase. All parts becoming the bedrock that jointly float her panoply of poetry forward. This is a full bloom on the summit.

Ripe with curiosity and dilemma, the album is an open gate of philosophical ruminations. Ideas of how “life will thrive wherever it can”, questions of how we all make it through amidst the unnatural systems we live inside of, and the complexities of a shelf- life love. Murr’s lyrics range from cryptic to colloquial with splashes of proverb. She turns her daily life into metaphors. Some elements feel city, some pastoral. One stellar line of “Oh the joy in what’s yet to become” will show up once and never repeat. Her artful weaving of the abstract and universal leaves us raptured.

From her poetic mountain, covered in delicacies of tone, she delivers us an album of surprises. With a whistling solo and vocals of demi-god allure, she frosts the cake. Her “wanting everything at the same time” has formed a real life masterpiece that will bless any little heart that listens.

 -Ry Welch

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Cornelia Murr was born in London and resides in New York as a dual citizen. Working with producer Jim James of My Morning Jacket on her 2018 debut album Lake Tear of the Clouds, Murr conjured a hazy blend of folk and cosmic soul music, bringing to mind the fantasias of Broadcast, Stereolab’s most pastoral moments, and the spooky romance of Beach House. She released the single “Hang Yr Hat” in 2021, inspired in part by the art of mime and the legendary Marcel Marceau, followed by the self-produced EP Corridor in November 2022, which No Depression describes “is as much an exploration of sparkling pop as it is a deeply felt mediation on the ache of being alive.” She has toured and collaborated with contemporaries such as Rodrigo Amarante, Lucius, Michael Nau, and Alice Boman. Her second LP, Run to the Center is out February 28th, 2025.