WAIT, SKY

album release show

Saturday, August 30, 2025 @ Visual Arts Collective

with special guests: E. Ellison & Sove the Second

I can’t wait to share this album with you all! I’m putting together quite a band for this very special show. Expect some big cathartic rock moments, a few teary eyed tender moments, and probably a tuba or two.

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Boise’s own Jesse Blake Rundle releases his new album, WAIT, SKY. The album blends alt-rock rhythms, experimental textures, and poetic storytelling. He’s bringing a full band to the VAC for one night only.

The twelve-track album, released on Doe Records July 29, combines layered guitar work, analog textures, and intricate rhythms with emotionally resonant songwriting. Drawing influence from artists like Grizzly Bear, Big Thief, Mitski, and Radiohead, Rundle’s latest project continues his evolution as a songwriter unafraid to explore themes of identity, transformation, and inner conflict.

Wait, Sky took shape during an artist residency in the Washington rainforest and was completed at Mixed Metaphor Studios in Boise, Idaho. The album was co-produced by Elisabeth Ellison (Radiation City, Cardioid), a longtime influence on Rundle’s work who now joins him as a collaborator and friend.

“This record started as a quiet, personal process,” says Rundle. “But as I worked, a larger story started to emerge—one about power, the roles we take on, and what happens when those identities start to crack.”

Throughout the album, Rundle blends analog warmth and lo-fi sensibilities with complex, shifting song structures. Tracks like “Depose,” “Anything,” and “Light” showcase a balance between vulnerability and tension, with lyrics that reflect on love, communication, and the search for meaning. A recurring tuba fanfare appears on several tracks, including the opener “Begin, Perfect” and the closer “End, Sky,” serving as a symbolic musical motif for the themes of authority and collapse.

Wait, Sky follows Rundle’s 2023 releases Artifacts of Water and Next Town’s Trees, and marks a significant artistic step forward. With its blend of experimental production, emotional honesty, and narrative cohesion, the album solidifies his voice in the modern art-rock and indie landscape.

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Also hitting the stage: E. Ellison makes a rare Idaho appearance with dreamy art pop that’ll haunt you in the best way. E. Ellison is the solo project of Lizzy Ellison (Radiation City, Cardioid). Her most recent debut, PILLARS, time capsules her experience re-emerging as a musician post pandemic, while simultaneously navigating a new relationship in a different hemisphere. While she traveled back and forth, she chronicled her time using film photography, field recordings, and writing/recording what would become PILLARS. The album is dark and slow, with harmonies driven by dry lead vocals, sad pianos, and acoustic guitars in ricocheted balance. Ellison is also the founder of Portland, OR based record label, Doe Records. Y

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Local legends Sove the Second kick it all off with a blast of off-kilter riffs and the right amount of chaos. Sove The Second makes music for the overwhelmed and the over thinkers, embracing uncertainty in a nonsensical universe. STS recognizes that anything can be a journey—entering other worlds on SSRIs, falling apart in your twenties, cowboy breakups, or eating Zots. If you need to do your own stick and poke, write a strongly worded letter to your senator, or take an hour-long shower, STS will be your sonic companion along the way.

These days, the band has yet to put a ring on a genre. With their debut EP, Nostalgia, the group started in the land of singer-songwriter and alternative indie; later they traveled over to the world of electronic, hip hop, and lofi with their next EP Loop Soup With Jamz (in collaboration with Justice Of The Peace); with their most recent single, “Green Hills”, STS is entering their pissed off era; it’s time to be loud, actionable, and name tyranny when it reveals itself. Although the group remains non-genrenomous, the cello’s lead appearance in each release threads a unique sound and integrates classical elements where it’s not always considered.