Pre-Order: Wormy – Shark River

Black Vinyl. Wherever you go, there you are. It’s a familiar adage to anyone who’s ever tried to outrun their demons, but it feels particularly cruel for a traveling musician like Noah Rauchwerk. Thanks to his work as a touring drummer with artists like Samia and Willow Avalon, Noah’s days are chopped up between long drives, crowded venues, and strange hotels. His years are chopped up between monthslong nationwide tours and sporadic, meandering stays back in New York and New Jersey while he waits to leave again.”I’m home and I’m away from home,” he explains. “And every time, I promise myself ‘When I’m home, I’ll finally do this.’ Or ‘When I’m back on tour, I’ll finally do that.'”This sense of lacking a permanent home permeates much of Shark River, Rauchwerk’s second album for his artist project Wormy. The album isn’t unlike a tour itself, full of hyper-detailed vignettes sewn together by introspective, window-gazing musings on life, love, and regret.