Wormy Shares ’27 Days,’ New Single from Upcoming LP ‘Shark River’
New York singer-songwriter Wormy, the project of Noah Rauchwerk, has announced his forthcoming LP, ‘Shark River,’ set for release on January 16, 2026, via Rose Garden.
Wormy today shares the album’s second single, ’27 Days.’ The wintry track follows the lead single ‘Give Up,’ which was co-produced by Samia and Renny Conti, two artists for whom Rauchwerk currently tours as a drummer. ’27 Days’ captures the aftermath of a short-lived, long-distance relationship. Rauchwerk notes the song explores how “logistics can really just mess something good up really easily,” suggesting that some relationships feel ideal precisely because they are logistically impossible.
‘Shark River’ is Wormy’s collection of songs grappling with the instability and rootlessness of a life spent in constant motion. Rauchwerk turns the lack of permanent home into a theme, exploring heartbreak and the isolating effect of touring on friendships and relationships.
The album’s sound is steeped in sepia-toned indie, accented by pedal steel and supported by production from Conti and Samia. Rauchwerk’s vocals, however, lean into the earnest, often conversational delivery of emo-folk luminaries like Bright Eyes and the Mountain Goats, oscillating between hushed reflection and shouted panic.
Rauchwerk is adept at dressing up his fears in self-deprecating humor, self-aware enough to recognize that many of his problems are of his own creation. But he also struggles with the idea that safety and comfort elude him, even in the places he assumed he could reliably find them. This sentiment inspired the album’s title, the name of a town in New Jersey but also a potent metaphor for feeling unsafe in a supposedly safe place.
“I remember hearing this story as a kid where a shark got into a river in New Jersey, and it always terrified me because when you go into a creek, the one thing you’re thinking is ‘At least there are no sharks in here,’” Rauchwerk says. “You go back to a familiar place and feel like it’s gonna solve your problems, but your problems follow you.”
The project asks existential questions about adulthood and stability, but ultimately finds resilience in the act of continuous forward movement.
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