Cavetown 'Running With Scissors' Signing

“Running With Scissors” is presented at Rough Trade NYC as a live rock/pop set featuring Cavetown, marking a clear shift from the solitary, home-recorded approach that defined much of his earlier work. Built with studio collaboration in mind, the material carries a sharper architecture and a more band-forward pulse while keeping the diaristic perspective that drew listeners in the first place. No documented NYC premiere history is known, but the song’s arrival in Brooklyn places it inside a venue tradition where indie pop is tested against room sound and crowd response. One can hear an artist using scale and craft as a new kind of intimacy.