Pitchfork Remembers Jeffrey Runnings (For Against)

After Jeffrey Runnings, the longtime leader of For Against, died of cancer in March, Pitchfork ran an obituary and shared the musician’s new solo single “Batman Forever.” That track is at radio now.

Pitchfork also included a statement from Bruce Licher, whose Independent Project Records will release Runnings’ posthumous solo LP later this year. Licher says, “Jeffrey Runnings was not only a good friend and an outstanding musician & songwriter, but someone whose life revolved around music. Jeff was always enthusiastically sharing music that he thought his friends would enjoy, and for years he would send me handwritten letters often accompanied by records he thought I should have, or a mixtape he’d made that he thought I should hear. Even now, in the middle of the second decade of the 21st Century, when he sent me his new album to hear for the first time, it was on a cassette tape that he mailed through the post. I couldn’t have asked for anything more special. His unique voice will be missed on so many levels.” Read more here.