*180 copies limited edition* "Several years ago, I walked away from a long-standing abusive relationship. The process of healing wasn’t linear, nor was it easy—but it began with something elegantly simple: walking. I spent countless hours walking through the city and in particular Point Pleasant Park, combing its rocky beaches searching for "sea brick" washed ashore. Over the course of 2 years, I collected 104 pieces of broken bricks. Each brick, a symbol of a week, a step, a moment of reclaiming myself.

In parallel, I found myself drawn to the decaying remnants of the old military batteries lining the shore and their rusted metal spires poking out from the earth. These mangled forms, beaten by the waves and corroded from the salt water, became a tactile objects of expression for my inner landscape, a physical manifestation of struggle and resilience. Slowly I began archiving these raw expressions, improvised and untethered from restraint as pure reflection. They were my way of processing, born of necessity.

The resulting composition Terminal Runner is a documentation of that journey: a blending of field recordings, found sounds, and the residual energy of the healing from the past. Each track's recurring sonic palette represents the cyclical nature of abuse—the ebb and flow of power, control, and release—and my attempt to work through its haunting echoes. What started as a personal archive of catharsis had over time become a sonic artifact—a piece of the past I can now look at and understand, not as something to escape from, but as something to help me carry forward. This album is not just the sound of erosion, but the sound of recontextualizing power and reshaping tension. It’s the motion of running through the terminal, embracing the uncertainty, and finding peace within fragments." - Brandon Auger