New Zealand Music News — Long Distance Runner

Local racket extraordinaires, Long Distance Runner, have signed to Aotearoa label, Sunreturn. This link up comes along with the announcement of a new album, Shadow, out on July 15th. The band is made up of Simon Oswald, Jono Glenday, Sam Cussen and Sam Shepherd and they are based in Te-Whanganui-A-Tara (Wellington) and Ōtepoti (Dunedin). Taking influence from 90's noise rock and East Coast screamo, Long Distance Runner show us that they truly have the stamina with the hard-hitting, cacophonous first single from their upcoming third album, 'Nothing', out today. "'Nothing' is one of the first songs we wrote with an album in mind" says Glenday. "It's inspired by classic 90s noise rock, totally rhythm-driven with...