Released: 2022
In the twenties one thing always holds up as the truth: fandom is your friend, until it isn’t. For Alex Giannascoli a career arc began making the sort of lo-fi indie which felt incredibly important at the time, despite the obvious niche effect. Then he added in the (Silent) (Sandy) to his handle in 2017 to avoid confusion and in the process confused a whole bunch of people.
If you can survive doing something that to an outsider looks like an attempt to capsize your whole schizz and come out grinning, then the odds are it’ll be fandom that helps. And by his ninth album, 2022’s God Save The Animals, the helping was doing great, leading the Philadelphian to a major label and putting him on shows like Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show.
In an interview with the NME it was revealed thay far from causing accusations of selling out, there was a breathy kind of ecstatic togetherness, the online being quoted with “Nothing could’ve prepared me for this…literally full body shivers”. It helped that Runner dealt in constituents many in and outside of this bubble could identify with, the singer stretching his voice whilst the nineties alt rock aesthetics of it’s tune hardly broke a sweat. Everybody loved it. That’s fandom. The day of them not could wait.
The Voice Of Unreason 
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