{"id":17374,"date":"2026-03-09T15:45:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gracious-nickel-mouse.62-72-44-115.cpanel.site\/cavetown-releases-album-running-with-scissors-along-with-empowering-cryptid-music-video-3\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:45:55","slug":"cavetown-releases-album-running-with-scissors-along-with-empowering-cryptid-music-video-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownrepublic.net\/?p=17374","title":{"rendered":"Cavetown Releases Album Running With Scissors Along With Empowering \u2018Cryptid\u2019 Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cavetown, the moniker of UK-born artist Robin Skinner, has released his new album, Running With Scissors, out now via Futures Music Group. The record marks a defining moment in Skinner\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Released today alongside the album is the lead single and music video for \u201cCryptid,\u201d a song and short film that explores Skinner\u2019s experience as a transgender person at a moment when trans rights, safety, and even visibility are being threatened. In the video, \u201ccryptids\u201d 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\u2019s intention is broader: to hold up a mirror to how society has historically recast many communities\u2014Black, queer, immigrant, disabled, and others, as \u201cother. \u201cIn allowing myself to love,\u201d Skinner says, \u201cI\u2019ve also allowed myself to feel anger about things I would usually ignore. I hope this feels empowering for people to sing back.\u201d<\/p>\n

In tandem with the album\u2019s release, Cavetown has announced a limited run of Running With Scissors Tour headline shows in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Brooklyn, bringing the album\u2019s themes of growth, reckoning, and connection into intimate live settings. In partnership with PLUS1, $1 from every ticket sold will go to local organizations working to support and empower the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ communities, underscoring Cavetown\u2019s continued commitment to advocacy and community care.<\/p>\n

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Written on the other side of an intensive two-year healing process, Running With Scissors is shaped by two profound life shifts: falling in love with the person Skinner wants to build a future with and the birth of his first sibling, 26 years his junior, which prompted a deep reckoning with family history, masculinity, and responsibility. Throughout the album, Skinner explores what it means to reparent yourself, to decide which parts of your upbringing you carry forward, and which you cut away in order to show up differently for the people you love.<\/p>\n

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The album opens with \u201cSkip,\u201d a buoyant love song Skinner calls \u201cthe first I\u2019ve written with genuinely positive overtones,\u201d capturing the childlike joy of loving from a place of safety. Its final chord flows directly into \u201cCryptid,\u201d revealing love and anger as intertwined forces. Elsewhere, \u201cRainbow Gal\u201d refracts intimacy through distance with shimmering 8-bit textures; \u201cBaby Spoon\u201d tenderly reimagines masculinity through care and softness; \u201cNPC,\u201d \u201cReaper,\u201d and \u201cStraight Through My Head (DO IT!!!)\u201d confront dissociation, burnout, intrusive thoughts, and self-survival; while \u201cNo Bark, No Bite\u201d and \u201cMicah\u201d grapple with family, inheritance, and the kind of man and sibling Skinner hopes to be.<\/p>\n

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Running With Scissors also marks a major creative milestone. For the first time in his career, Skinner invited collaborators into the core creative process, working closely with Chloe Moriondo, Underscores, Ryan Raines, David Pramik, and Couros, whose contributions expand Cavetown\u2019s sonic universe.<\/p>\n

The album closes with its title track, \u201cRunning With Scissors,\u201d which distills the record\u2019s central metaphor: adulthood as risk, imbalance, and forward motion. \u201cEveryone\u2019s running with scissors,\u201d Skinner reflects. \u201cThere\u2019s so much to be scared of, but there\u2019s also so much fun to be had, and you\u2019ll miss all of it if you don\u2019t just wing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond the music, Cavetown continues to be a vital community builder. His long-running This Is Home Project, an LGBTQ+ youth initiative supporting housing, mental health services, creative programs, and crisis support, has raised over $700,000 for organizations serving queer young people. That same spirit of care, advocacy, and responsibility runs throughout Running With Scissors, underscoring Skinner\u2019s evolution not just as an artist, but as a person deeply committed to the world he wants to help shape.<\/p>\n

With Running With Scissors, Cavetown steps fully into adulthood without abandoning the millions of listeners who have grown up alongside him. \u201cI don\u2019t want this to feel like it\u2019s for kids,\u201d Skinner says. \u201cBecause I\u2019m not a kid anymore. I want it to feel like we\u2019re moving forward together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cavetown\u2019s new album expands his sound while keeping the intimate songwriting fans love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pageone-online-network"],"pageone_source":{"pageone_source":"","author_name":"PAGEONE Online Network"},"_pageone_source":"","zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":{"nxtgen_comments":[{"1126":"gusto ko yung halo ng dream pop at mas matapang na tunog.\r","1127":"cryptid music video is powerful and symbolic, goosebumps talaga \ud83c\udfa5\r","1128":"ang sarap pakinggan habang nagmumuni muni \ud83c\udf19\r","1129":"ang album na to parang conversation with yourself \ud83e\ude9e\r","1130":"hindi siya nagbibigay ng sagot, pero nagbibigay ng space.\r"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownrepublic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownrepublic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownrepublic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownrepublic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownrepublic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brownrepublic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownrepublic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownrepublic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownrepublic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownrepublic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}