Here is a song and video that literally does what it says on the tin, perfectly capturing the urgent anxiety of the title itself: Running Through The Airport.

 

We’ve all been there: turning up late for a flight and anxiously racing through Departures to reach the desk in the hope that you’ll be in time to get on board. Even if most of us don’t do it dressed as a deep sea trawlerman.

 

With its relentless motorik pulse, it hurries you along mentally in tune – and time – with Daniel Lyon, the man racing to catch his plane. He’s one half of the duo Packaging, working alongside his namesake Daniel Birch – better known as “Connor.”

 

Together they fuse metronomic krautrock rhythms with electronic synth melodies and swirling psychedelic textures, conveying a mood of disconnection, ennui and restless movement as they explore the idea of travel, both physical and metaphysical.

 

This song was actually inspired by the experience it describes: Lyon was late for a flight to Denver to meet up with Birch, who works there, and came up with the title before he reached the studio. Setting to work after a late-night bar break, the duo started recording the song at 3am. 

 

“We began playing this bass line and synth parts after a while of being in a sort of sleepy-flow state,” says Lyon.  “Things just clicked into place, the vibe and feeling we had been trying to conjure.”

 

Packaging’s self-titled debut album, released at the end of 2025, “fuses psychedelic textures, krautrock chug, electronic grandeur, tuneful accessibility, and just a little bit of bristling self-awareness.”

 

Collaborators include Luke Temple (Here We Go Magic), Ash Reiter (Sugar Candy Mountain), James Barone (Beach House), Andy Rauworth (Gauntlet Hair) and Nathaniel Rateliff.