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Cavetown<\/strong>\u00a0(Robin Skinner), has released his new album\u00a0Running With Scissors<\/em>, out now via Futures Music Group \/ Virgin Music Group. The record arrives just weeks ahead of his return to Australia, where Skinner will appear at Laneway Festival before playing two headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne.<\/p>\n Australian fans will be able to hear material from\u00a0Running With Scissors<\/em>\u00a0live when Cavetown performs at Sydney\u2019s Enmore Theatre on 11 February and Melbourne\u2019s Palais Theatre on 12 February, alongside national appearances at Laneway Festival. It marks his first Australian visit since the album\u2019s completion, bringing a body of work shaped by transition, reflection, and hard-won clarity to local stages.<\/p>\n The album captures a moment of personal and artistic recalibration, written during a period Skinner describes as a threshold between youth and adulthood. Sonically,\u00a0Running With Scissors<\/em>\u00a0expands Cavetown\u2019s palette, weaving together hyper-pop textures, heavier guitar work and his familiar dream-pop warmth, while remaining anchored in intimacy and emotional directness.<\/p>\n Lead single \u201cCryptid\u201d, released alongside the album, speaks directly to themes of visibility and self-definition. The accompanying video draws on Skinner\u2019s experience as a transgender person, using metaphor rather than didacticism to explore how communities are labelled, hidden or misunderstood. It\u2019s a song that has already become a focal point of the new record and is set to be a key moment in the upcoming live shows.<\/p>\n \n