Strawberry Runners

Strawberry Runners is the music project of Hudson Valley-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Emi Night (they/them). Night writes folk and pop songs with lyricism exploring topics of grief, trauma, and growth. A survivor of childhood abuse, Night is committed to destigmatizing conversations about the complex entanglement of love, power, and control within relationships, as well as the lasting effects of trauma. In Strawberry Runners’ eponymous debut album, Night's compositions navigate themes of heartbreak, solitude, and belonging on the terrain of pop, folk, and country-reminiscent instrumentation. Their voice's ASMR-inducing textures melt into syrupy harmonized refrains, creating the album's alluring, bristling warmth. Amid the unfolding landscape of familiar yet abstract arrangements, Night wields the heavy lyrical material of failure, grief, and uncertainty with infallible grace and disarming candor. Full of life and heart and plenty of hurt, Strawberry Runners often sparkles on its surface, but peel the layers away, and what we have here is an untamed reckoning with the world and oneself. Touching upon grief, growth, and exaltation in equal measure, their music, in its own considered and immeasurable manner, imparts big questions and life lessons with captivating insight and powerful poignance.