Cavetown is a songwriter who started out making tender, bedroom-sized songs and somehow ended up becoming a generational constant. On '
Running With Scissors', his latest album, he sounds more curious and playful than ever, pushing his sound in a bunch of different directions and clearly having a great time doing it.
Early on, Cavetown signals that this is not a one-lane album. '
Cryptid' is immediately sonically interesting, leaning harder into rock textures than you might expect, with a strange, specific energy that almost flirts with nu metal. '
Rainbow Gal' keeps things bright and buoyant, before '
Baby Spoon' delivers one of the album's funniest moments: "I wanna be your baby spoon" is a genuinely silly lyric, delivered with such sincerity that it's charming.
If there's one track that feels like the album's big swing, it's 'NPC'. It's a proper highlight: dynamic, dramatic and catchy as fuck, building into something that feels epic without losing Cavetown's emotional warmth. '
Reaper' and '
Straight Through My Head (DO IT!!!)' keep the momentum up, while '
Tarmac' is pure fun, breezy and confident in a way that suits this louder, more outward-facing version of Cavetown.
