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Interview Words: Adhamh O’Caoimh RÚN Rún’s feral
self-titled album made quite the impression on my listening schedule as soon as some more learned folks in my circle tipped me to their unique sludge laden sound. A collection of monumental talent, from Nurse With Wound collaborator and musical force Diarmuid MacDiarmada, the polymathic Tara Mooney of Clumsy Giantess, and Solar Bears main main, Naoise Roo collaborator and producer extraordinaire Rian Trench, they have conspired to craft something that brings to mind Cult of Luna more than Kila. as close to Popol Vuh as it is Planxty, an earthy monolith of an album that speaks of yet more ruined roads to wander. A startling and accomplished debut. 26 Congratulations on the beautiful record. Can you shed a little light on how Rún came together? Tara Mooney: During lockdown, I was working with Rian, making stuff and sending it back and forth to each other. I was also working with Diarmuid and Connor McMahon, who has a real talent for bringing people together. And so Connor, Diarmuid, and I had a kind of a triangulation going where we were idea swapping and sound making. And those two things, while they were happening quite separately, it felt like they had a lot of similarities. Natalia Baylis had asked me if I would do a gig in Manor Hamilton, one of the COVID gigs as The Clumsy GIantess, and it was an opportunity to bring those two things together. So Diarmuid, Rian, and I met around August in ‘22 and we just immediately found a really interesting place where the three of us were able to play together. And I guess because it was at the end of COVID, there was also maybe more of an openness and a vulnerability. So those three things kind of allowed certain, creative ideas and spirits and generosity, I think, to just be. Diarmuid MacDiarmada: I started working with Tara during the lockdown, just helping out with her own work. When we