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Turf War

by Run Remedy

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"Turf War" is both a playful jab and cry of frustration at the chaos and grief of straddling multiple battle lines. Switching from the hushed back garden acoustics of Koob's earlier, violin-heavy work, Run Remedy has become more sonically ambitious and the single captures the live-in-the-studio feel of a full band loose-limbed and turning up the amps.

​"I think the song captures the nuances of displacement," says Koob. "We’re all just collage work and identity feels like a big, cluttered mess of things we pick up as we move along"; perhaps an unsurprising sentiment from the nomadic musician and inconveniently queer daughter of church leaders.

"Turf War" also comes with a video, filmed at Pear Mill's Vintage Emporium in Stockport. The clip is part "making of" and part "live recording" - featuring Run Remedy's own crew of misfits: sound engineering from Tony Draper and production and drumming from Rhys Jiang, as well as video assistance from Evan Wilson, It's a snapshot of a day filled with camaraderie, inside jokes, and the joy of creating music.

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Out on the lawn, sickly but strong, thinking of Kentucky blue.
Well I'm scratching my back and you're vacuuming the AstroTurf.
Terribly sad, making your mad, baby if you only knew.
Well if English is Lit, Alice had it even worse.

I beat you back - on the porch seat, ready to attack. Gonna tell ya all the things you're lacking, til my face turns blue.

You wanna fight? I hope you do so I can almost feel alright. I know you love me when your fist goes tight - like it's something old and new.

Where are you? Where are you hanging your hat now?

Trip to the past, ugly and fast, just another Jersey girl.
Well I'm kitschy and class, a combo known around the world.
Character bound, wired for sound, I was there to give you life.
Tell me what they said now about your transatlantic wife.

I hear ya, man. The English shouldn't ever wed Americans. I tip my hat to all those good samaritans who took me off of the shelf.

You wanna run away when we keep having so much fun. I want to stay and talk to everyone - everyone except myself.

Where are you?
Where are you?
Where are you?
Where are you?

Where are you hanging your head now?

Hanging my head now. Oh I'm hanging my head now.

credits

released March 7, 2024
music & lyrics - Robin Koob
production - Rhys Jiang and Tony Draper
guitar - Robin Koob
drums - Rhys Jiang
guitar - James Cooke
Bass - George Burrage

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Run Remedy Manchester, UK

Multi-instrumentalist
self-proclaimed Jersey trash and Manchester 'string-slut', Run Remedy is making sad queer girl bangers for the soul starved.

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