{"id":2238672,"date":"2026-01-17T10:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2238672"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:12:25","slug":"cavetown-releases-new-album-running-with-scissors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cavetown-releases-new-album-running-with-scissors\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavetown Releases New Album &#8216;Running With Scissors&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Cavetown, the moniker of UK-born artist Robin Skinner, has released his new album\u00a0<em>Running With Scissors<\/em>, marking a defining moment in his career.<\/p>\n<p>An emotionally expansive body of work, the album captures the disorienting threshold between youth and adulthood, braided together sonically through hyper-pop, heavy guitars, and his signature dream-pop sounds.<\/p>\n<p>It has been released today via Futures Music Group\/Virgin Music Group, alongside the lead single and music video for \u201cCryptid\u201d. A song and short film, \u201cCryptid\u201d explores Skinner\u2019s experience as a transgender person at a moment when trans rights, safety, and even visibility are being threatened.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CRYPTID TRAILER\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UN38C32fS94?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>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 it centres 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, Black, queer, immigrant, disabled, and others, as \u201cother\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn allowing myself to love,\u201d Skinner said of the track, \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<p>He told\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone AU\/NZ<\/em> that the whole album is something he\u2019s \u201cvery, very proud about\u201d \u2013 not just the songs, but the process of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really pushed myself to be brave and try new things and welcome new people into my creative process,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I feel like that comes across in the music, it went through multiple brains before being in its final form. I was really able to let my imagination just like go crazy with this album and let the songs kind of ebb and flow in different directions and take unexpected twists and turns.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\">\n            Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\">\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Each song on\u00a0<em>Running With Scissors<\/em>, he said, is very sure about what it is, and what it is trying to say.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/64PgXU23E9lh3upKqECPIr?utm_source=generator\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAnd I feel like that\u2019s a difficult line to balance,\u201d he explained. \u201cBut I feel really proud that I about the way that I did balance it. I achieved what I set out to achieve. I don\u2019t know how else to sell it, but I\u2019m very excited people to just hear the creative risks that I\u2019ve taken and the brave ways that I\u2019ve taken my art up another level for this album.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cavetown will soon head Down Under for Laneway, marking his Australian festival debut. He\u2019s also playing his own headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne \u2013 see <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.handsometours.com\/tours\/cavetown\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cavetown\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/futures.ffm.to\/runningwithscissors\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Running With Scissors<\/a> is out now.\u00a0<\/em><em>Keep an eye on Rolling Stone AU\/NZ for the full interview next month.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t\t! function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n\t\t\t\tif (f.fbq) return;\n\t\t\t\tn = f.fbq = function () {\n\t\t\t\t\tn.callMethod ?\n\t\t\t\t\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n\t\t\t\t};\n\t\t\t\tif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n\t\t\t\tn.push = n;\n\t\t\t\tn.loaded = !0;\n\t\t\t\tn.version = '2.0';\n\t\t\t\tn.queue = [];\n\t\t\t\tt = b.createElement(e);\n\t\t\t\tt.async = !0;\n\t\t\t\tt.src = v;\n\t\t\t\ts = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\t\t\t\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n\t\t\t}(window, document, 'script',\n\t\t\t\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\t\t\tfbq('init', '243859349395737');\n\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t\tfbq.disablePushState = true;\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cavetown, the moniker of UK-born artist Robin Skinner, has released his new album\u00a0Running With Scissors, marking a defining moment in his career. 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