Cavetown - Running With Scissors

Cavetown returns with Running With Scissors, a 2026 album that keeps Robin Skinner's intimate, diary-like songwriting front and center on a single LP.

Skinner started out sharing homemade songs online as a teenager in England, building a fiercely loyal audience with bedroom recordings that treated anxiety, identity and friendship with rare gentleness. Over albums like Lemon Boy, Sleepyhead and worm food, he grew from a home-studio tinkerer into one of the most recognizable voices in indie pop, a songwriter whose openness has made his music a refuge for a generation of listeners.

That spirit carries through tracks like Cryptid, Rainbow Gal and Straight Through My Head, where soft-spoken vocals and intensely personal lyrics remain the heartbeat of the record. Sailboat brings in fellow internet-raised songwriter chloe moriondo for a duet, a natural pairing given how both artists grew up in public, and the closing title track brings the record to a fitting end.

Running With Scissors feels like a letter to the fans who have grown up alongside him, honest about the hard parts and warm about the rest. On vinyl it invites the kind of close, start-to-finish listening his music has always rewarded, ideally with headphones on, the lights down and a notebook nearby.