runo plum - Bloom Again EP (2026) [Hi-Res]

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 butterflies 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.”

Charting the rest of the journey on ‘Bloom Again’ are more of plum’s signature bedroom missives, including the spacious, sensual “pink moon,” penned in the evening after a first date with her soon-to-be girlfriend and collaborator Noa Francis. The EP strips back ‘patching’ standout “Be Gentle With Me” with an acoustic version of the track, a nod to plum’s bedroom recordings from the pandemic years, when sharing her songs online was the only way she could perform them. More recently, plum’s music has taken on a new complexity with her live show, debuting a full-band lineup on recent headline tours across the US (Feb/March 2026) and Europe (Nov 2025), and appearances at Pitchfork London and Paris, SXSW Austin, Treefort Music Fest, London Calling, and more.

Made in remote collaboration with singer, songwriter and producer Phillip Brooks and with contributions from instrumentalist Noa Francis, ‘Bloom Again’ was formed as a reminder that healing is inevitable. “I wrote this as I was walking through the woods when spring had just begun” says plum, “just as the leaves started to bud and everything was slowly becoming more and more green everyday. ‘patching’ was the pain and repair, and ‘Bloom Again’ a step beyond the healing, and extension of the end of ‘patching,’ when everything starts to become beautiful again.”