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  • Genre: Experimental / Folk / Indie

    Location Montreal, Alberta, Ca

    Profile Views: 232247

    Last Login: 4/18/2013

    Member Since 8/10/2005

    Website www.raespoon.com

    Record Label Saved By Radio

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Saved By Radio's Rae Spoon is a transgendered indie electronic musician who lives in Montreal. I Can't Keep All Of Our Secrets is Rae's sixth full-length release. A pop/electronic album about the complexity of grief, it focuses on a particular experience of loss. Rae wrote the album in the wake of a friend's sudden death. With palpable emotion, the songs map the topography of loss and of attachment that extends beyond death. Musically, I Can't Keep All Of Our Secrets is Rae's most electronic album to date and marks progress in a journey that pulled Rae towards rock/electronic music. Using heavily programmed production, analog synths and distorted electric guitars, Rae has moved beyond experimenting to establishing their own style in the genre. The album features computer programming and beats by Lynne T (Montreal's Lesbians on Ecstasy) and Berlin's Alexandre Decoupigny. It was co-produced by Lorrie Matheson in Calgary, Alberta. Rae has toured extensively over the past ten years in Canada as well as internationally. Through touring, they have managed to build a strong grassroots following. Rae was longlisted for Polaris Music Prize in 2008 (superioryouareinferior) as well as nominated for two CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards in 2010.
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  • Influences

    Kate Bush, The Knife, The Books
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Bio:

Rae Spoon is both the hunter and the hunted. His latest album love is a hunter (Saved By Radio/Vinyl), is a pop-infused exploration of identity, contradiction and longing. Heavily inspired by an extensive period spent in Europe, Spoon examines the various shades of love found everywhere from the club to the internal monsters within. Recorded with Lorrie Matheson in Calgary, Alberta, Love Is A Hunter is Spoon’s most danceable release yet. He continues to navigate through uncharted terrain, blurring musical genres, lyrical lines and electro-infused beats. As a former country crooner with previous releases: Throw Some Dirt On Me (2003), Your Trailer Door (2005), White Hearse Comes Rolling (2006) and the exploration of Canada and colonialism on Polaris nominated Superioryouareinferior (2008), Spoon shifts focus to love found beneath disco balls and the quest for belonging and community. “Death By Elektro,” sets the president for the album to extend beyond any preconceived notions. With its honest and confessional approach, Spoon begs to push boundaries. He’s always been a shape-shifter. “We Can’t Be Lovers,” is the quintessential indie-rock song for anyone who has struggled to muster up the gumption to try and take someone home after a night of dancing and flirtation. While “Love Is A Hunter,” relays the primal, almost animalistic aspects of desire. Take it or leave it. “You Can Dance,” adopts the philosophy of going after one’s longing, shedding all insecurities and laying out your cards. Once the club lights go up and life continues on, some lovers linger, while others drift out to sea. “Lighthouse,” wades through the various waves of intimacy and internal undress. “You Like All the Parties,” is a song of struggle and social anxiety. For some a party is a place to masquerade and explore, while others remain hidden within the shadows and commotion, wondering where the spark of their love dissolved. Part acoustic ballad, part country song, “Joan,” is the ultimate love song to the trans community featuring a duet with The Cliks’ front man Lucas Silveira. As the glitter-splashed queer anthem “Danger Danger Danger,” illustrates Spoon in the throws of his creative versatility. With heavy bass notes and twinkling dance floor promise, he could debunk the myth that gay bars play bad music. “Monsters,” combats the internal demons that attempt to devour and question our survival, limitations and perseverance. After a stint last fall in Berlin, “U-Bahn,” explores the relationship we carry with our surroundings, how history’s narrative travels within us and intertwines with the present. The song came out of a collection of songs recorded with Berlin artist Alexandre Decoupigny called Worauf Wartest Du? and features his textured electronic programming. “Be the light be the light be the light,” is a stunning acoustic epilogue riddled with internal doubt, existential queries and concludes with the realization that all darkness eventually brings light.

Member Since:

August 10, 2005

Influences:

Kate Bush, The Knife, The Books

Record Label:

Saved By Radio

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