BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:155014@kingstonhappenings.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260131T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260131T200000 DTSTAMP:20260202T143426Z URL:https://kingstonhappenings.org/events/cornelia-murr-w-storey-littleton / SUMMARY:Cornelia Murr w/Storey Littleton DESCRIPTION:Cornelia’s Murr’s newest album began with a question: What do I want? The answer is everything\, and it’s never felt more urgent.\n On her first LP in six years\, Run To The Center\, out February 28\, 2025 on 22Twenty\, the London-born singer-songwriter delivers her most confiden t\, expansive album yet. Across 10 hypnotic pop songs is a fully realized portrait of a woman and an artist in her thirties\, standing triumphantly in uncertainties\, asking the crucial questions one needs to sustain a lif e: How can you fit everything you want into a life? How can you do this if you want so much?\nRun To The Center\, which Murr will tour international ly next year\, is her first release since her self-produced\, six-track EP Corridor in 2022 and her first LP since her 2018 debut Lake Tear of the C louds\, produced by Jim James of My Morning Jacket. For years\, Murr tried to make another LP\, but extraneous forces kept getting in the way\, whet her economic or global.\nBut in the spring of 2023\, Murr started working with prolific producer Luke Temple (Adrienne Lenker\, Hand Habits)\, addin g to her impressive list of collaborators\, which includes Rodrigo Amarant e\, Alice Boman\, Reverend Baron\, and Oracle Sisters among many others. T emple was an old friend whom she had met in New York more than a decade pr ior. Finally\, forces coalesced for them to work together. The result is a sweeping album of Murr’s most spectral and tender pop yet\, born of a n eed to excavate her desires and experience of time\, both in new songs bor n spontaneously out of an easy collaboration with Temple\, as well as olde r songs that\, for years\, had been knocking around in her brain.\nRun To the Center is the most updated expression of who Murr is now\, both sonica lly and emotionally\, particularly as questions around artmaking have beco me more urgent for her over the better part of the last decade.\n“As a y oung person you’re free to wander. There's a lot of power in that\,” M urr says. “But there's an incredible sense of urgency that has snuck up on me. All of a sudden it feels like I must define my life in some major w ays. Am I going to be a mother or not? If so\, who am I going to do that w ith? If so\, where am I going to do that? How am I going to afford that? M eanwhile\, this feels like the most important time to devote to my work. L ife these days is seemingly asking for my commitment to what can feel like contradictory things.”\nBut from urgency comes purpose: Run To The Cent er is an explosion that sounds like an exhale: the delicate\, ethereal bea uty of Murr’s music is fortified by a new sonic strength\, expressed in more muscular production than Murr’s last releases\, including louder dr ums and bouncier synths.The album swirls with a sparse and hazy futurism\, exploring life’s biggest questions with the assurance of someone comfor table basking in its uncertainties.\nWhile writing the record\, Murr did l iterally run to the center\, that is\, of the 48 contiguous United States\ , where she hunkered down in the 948-person town of Red Cloud\, Nebraska w hile restoring an abandoned house. Music flowed out of her during this mon astic period of stripping wallpaper in a derelict construction zone in the middle of nowhere. In the last place she expected\, she was able to gain a vantage point of her own life and ultimately locate her own center\, a g rounding force that was inside of her the whole time. “Working on this o ld house as if it’s my body/If I take care of it it’ll take care if of me/Stripping leaves off the centuries/Maps of other worlds obscured desti nies\,” she sings on the title track with a delicate nerve\, like tappin g a champagne glass with the tine of a fork before making a toast. She may not have answers to all the big questions\, but for Murr\, the beauty is in being able to ask.\nMurr and Temple began working together at Temple’ s apartment in Pasadena\, then recorded with bassist Shane McKillop and dr ummer Kosta Galanopoulos at a studio in Long Beach. When Murr moved to Neb raska in the summer of 2023\, Temple came out to join her. She had set up a bare bones recording rig\, and there they finished all the arrangements together. While Murr’s past albums\, with her signature soft voice and c elestial production\, have been described as “dreamy\,” the multilayer ed\, revved up production of Run To The Center sounds more like waking up. \nWhen Murr recorded Lake Tear of the Clouds\, she had barely performed as a solo artist but rather had backed up other artists for years. That albu m marked a pivotal change in her life: the shift where she decided to focu s on her own music\, a shift of intention and identity. If Murr’s first album was about unveiling her own voice in music\, her latest record is ab out exploring that commitment.\nThe album’s radiant\, seasoned productio n is on particular display in lead single “How Do You Get By?”\, which explores the brass tacks of life\, asking real questions around the econo mics and the personal currencies that drive you\, whether it be money\, fa me\, or spirituality. “In the dream I asked you it seemed kinda rude/But in the light of day I’m going to/How do you get by\,” Murr sings.\n “I've found that people who seem to have wealth in one way are seeking i t in another\,” Murr says. “The song starts with curiosity in others\, but it's also asking yourself: What is it that sustains you? What do we n eed from each other?\nFor all her sweeping questions\, Murr brings humor t o her songs. “Bless Yr Lil Heart” is at once a tongue-and-cheek and ea rnest cry in response to our unstoppable mercurial whims and urges. “Tel l me how am I ever gonna make a real life/Wanting everything at the same t ime\,” Murr sings in a closing stanza that’s as soothing as it is cath artic. After all this time\, Murr has arrived\, standing fully in her powe r. 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