After staying a year in
New Zealand, she returned to the United States and got back involved in the
Los Angeles music scene. the Nocturnes, and released the
Wellington EP (2008) and two albums,
A Year of Spring (2009) and
Aokigahara (2011), with the latter released via Errant Child Records. The sound of the band was described as folkgaze with elements of chamber-pop, goth, and post-rock. Around this time, the post-rock band
Red Sparowes announced in June 2009 that Rundle had joined the band as a guitarist, where she replaced Josh Graham, who had departed the band the previous year. She played on their third and final album,
The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer, released by
Sargent House on April 6, 2010.
Tool and
Melvins producer
Toshi Kasai was credited with the production on the album. She self-released an ambient guitar album,
Electric Guitar: One, in 2011. for the release of their first EP, 2012's
Kitsune.
Kitsune was created in a short timeframe during a brief offtime from Red Sparowes at the end of 2011, Kasai was the producer on the EP. Between releases Dave Clifford left the band and would be replaced by Andrew Clinco. which she described as "my somewhat anonymous downtempo, somewhat creepy electronic dark wave project". In an interview with Ghettoblaster Magazine she confirmed she was behind the semi-secret side project. She originally wanted to explore this project more and it existed before Marriages was formed, but it failed to find a sufficient audience and her very expensive
synthesizer was stolen, which she was unable to replace it at the time. In a later interview she has shown a desire to revisit the sound. Rundle's second solo work,
Some Heavy Ocean, was released on May 20, 2014, by
Sargent House. Prior to release the album was available on
Pitchfork Advance. It was co-produced by Chris Common and recorded at the Sargent House studio. Rundle lived at the studio complex as an
artist-in-residence for the period.
Arms I Know So Well received its own music video, directed by Thomas McMahan. Rundle suffers from
adenomyosis, which in part inspired the material on her third album,
Marked for Death, produced by Sonny DiPerri. It was released in October 2016 on Sargent House. In January 2017, a split EP with Jaye Jayle, titled
The Time Between Us, was announced, and the song "The Distance" was made available on streaming platforms. The EP was released by Sargent House on February 24. Rundle also released the song "Forever, As the Setting Son" on January 20, 2017, the date of
Donald Trump's inauguration as United States president, with all proceeds donated to
Planned Parenthood. Rundle's fourth studio album,
On Dark Horses, was released on September 14, 2018. It featured contributions by Jaye Jayle members Evan Patterson and Todd Cook as well as Dylan Nadon. Also in 2018, Rundle provided backing vocals for "Just Breathe", a song on American rock band
Thrice's 2018 album
Palms. Rundle attended the 2019's
Roadburn Festival, where she and the artist in residence at time, the
sludge metal band
Thou, would team up and perform a couple of new songs they had written for a special set list, with the intention of releasing a collaboration album at a future date. This album was first set in motion when they shared a dressing room at Seattle’s Northwest Terror Fest in 2018, realizing the potential cooperation. Both artists would find value in their partnership, having been longtime admirers of each other's previous work; Rundle admitted in an interview with
Guitar World that in 2015 she became obsessed with the band and felt that they had "mutual awareness". Rundle found the partnership fruitful, allowing her to add more heft and broaden the use of the instrumentals compared to her solo releases. All the songs on the project took over a painstaking year to come together, while the recording itself only took three days. In October 2020, their collaboration album,
May Our Chambers Be Full, was released. A surprise follow-up
EP called
The Helm of Sorrow included a cover of
the Cranberries song "
Hollywood". It consisted of four
B-sides from
May Our Chambers Be Full that were originally included on the “diehard” edition of the original release. In August 2019,
Roadburn Festival announced that Rundle was one of two curators for the 2020 edition, alongside a scheduled reunion concert for the Red Sparowes following a ten-year long hiatus, but the whole planned event was later cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. On July 3 2020, she released a standalone single named,
Staying Power, which she originally recorded during the
On Dark Horses studio sessions. The song details the experiences from a touring musician trying to survive and keeping in touch with her own feelings. She made her debut as a feature film composer with the
Riley Stearns film
Dual. She was first approached by Stearns around the time of
On Dark Horses and would score his short 2020's
The Blanket as precursor while spending her time that year mostly at home. After a week-long stay in a mental health hospital helped her get sober from drugs and alcohol, she released her fifth studio solo album,
Engine of Hell, in November 2021, to positive critical reception. She later released an EP called
Orpheus Looking Back, consisting of three songs that she made during the
Engine of Hell recording sessions that didn't make the cut. The first song, "Pump Organ Song", which she created in response to the dissolution of her marriage, was published as a single ahead of its March 25, 2022 release. In support of
Engine of Hell and
Orpheus Looking Back, she embarked on a short 2023 Spring North American tour, which took place from March 24 and ended at
Le Poisson Rouge on April 9. A live recording of
Engine of Hell, titled
Live At Roadburn, which she performed at 2022's
Roadburn Festival, was released separately on July 7, 2023. It was her first independently released album in thirteen years. On April 8, 2022, she announced a follow-up to her first album,
Electric Guitar: One, titled
EG2: Dowsing Voice. Despite the name, the album is a departure from her first and the rest of her discography. Rundle described it as a "weird art project" inspired by her stay in
coastal Wales in the winter of 2020, where she also recorded the album. It features fully
improvised music with special attention on experimental vocals that are devoid of conventional lyrics. It was released on May 13, 2022. In March 2024, Rundle collaborated with
multi-instrumentalist Patrick Shiroishi on a track called "A Sparrow In A Swallow’s Nest". In the song Rundle recites her poem “Paloma” while Shiroishi provides the instrumentals. It was released as the
A-side on a
7" single by Shiroishi via
Sub Pop on April 12. On the 10th anniversary of her second album,
Some Heavy Ocean, she would return to Europe on a tour in August to celebrate the record including a concert at the
Supersonic Festival. In August, she announced a fall US tour with Ora Cogan and Storefront Church as the openers. The tour started in late October and ran through December. == Personal life ==