runo plum

Minnesota singer-songwriter runo plum returns with 'Bloom Again,’ a swoon-worthy, vernal new EP that finds plum in the depths of heartbreak and follows her as she blossoms into the tender revelation of new love. Intimately recorded in a series of live, one-take sessions, the EP coalesces around warm finger-plucked tracks that swirl with intensity and the poetics of love and loss. ‘Bloom Again’ follows the release of plum’s 2025 debut LP, patching, dubbed “one of the most accomplished and rewarding debuts of the year” by Wonderland Magazine, and receiving nods from Rolling Stone, The Line of Best Fit, NPR, BBC, Stereogum and more. Lovelorn EP opener “butterflies” pays homage to the ‘patching’ cover art (a butterfly painted by plum herself), but emerges from a place of discouragement rather than possibility. “You might assume it's about the giddy feelings of having nervous butteflies when you have a crush,” says plum about the track, “and I suppose it is, but it's more so about those feelings being crushed, and not knowing what to do with those feelings.” Bloom Again is out now via Winspear.