talker - Runaway Jane

“She conveys vulnerability through open writing and catchy choruses that stay with you long after the song is gone.” – PAPER 

“Brash and playfully hopeless.” – STEREOGUM 

“Mesmerizing.” – ONES TO WATCH 

Every great record has a story to tell. talker’s Runaway Jane feels more like wandering into one already in progress.

The second full-length album from the Los Angeles based songwriter Celeste Tauchar feels like a cinematic desert dream from the very start. Every song leaves you feeling like a phantom sucked into someone else’s timeline. Following the unflinching honesty behind her 2024 debut, I’m Telling You The Truth, Celeste spends much of the running time wrestling with what comes after accountability.

Written alongside longtime collaborators Matt Bernstein and JR Kurtz, mixed by Grammy-nominated producer Sarah Tudzin (illuminati hotties, boy genius), and masted by Brian Lucey, Runaway Jane touches on widescreen indie rock, dusty Americana, and moments of explosive alt-rock catharsis that feel as expansive as the Mojave Desert.

That sense of everything-in-motion-always is dominant in Tauchar’s life; born in Germany, raised in Sacramento, shaped by time in Miami and the past decade in Los Angeles, she now splits her time between the road, LA, and Berlin. She’s long existed in a state of motion and that sense of constant displacement is a major theme in her current songwriting and life.