Truck
talker has been running for a really long time. To what exactly? She can’t even answer that herself.
After releasing her debut LP I’m Telling You the Truth in 2024, talker––the alias of Los Angeles-based songwriter Celeste Tauchar––has spent the last year+ grappling with the aftermath of that honesty. Documenting those sorts of very real conversations cracked something open for her, but on Runaway Jane, her new album, Celeste examines what happens next: the moment where you actually have to take accountability.
Sometimes, it feels easier to run. But Runaway Jane reframes that fight-or-flight instinct and channels it into something on a collision course with endless possibility. It's raw and unpolished, building up to intense moments of grit and emotion that match the sheer vastness of the west.
"Truck" finds talker in an eerily familiar moment––sitting in someone else's truck, listening to the same songs, wondering if anything ever really changes or grows at all. "This song is about the patterns that we sometimes unknowingly fall into, the ones that you don't notice until you're right back in the same place - just maybe with someone else, or in a different season." Celeste explains. "It takes place in a truck, but it could have been anywhere else that I've already been."
Written and brought to life with her longtime live band and collaborators Matt Bernstein and JR Kurtz, with mixing from Grammy-nominated producer Sarah Tudzin (illuminati hotties, boygenius) and mastering by Brian Lucey, Runaway Jane is the work of an artist in constant emotional displacement.
