Frank Yang It probably amounts to some sort of Can-rock heresy, but I think I actually like Bry Webb on his own more than I ever did with Constantines . I fully acknowledge why many hold the Cons up as one of the greatest Canadian rock acts of the past however many years/decades/centuries - I've seen them live , I know what they were capable of - but the fact is, his solo debut Provider has captivated me more than any of the [...]
Killbeat If we were to spool up the Wayback Machine to November 2006 , you'd find a post where I confessed that sending me a lovely slab of vinyl was a pretty good way to get to the top of my "to listen to" pile... something that apparently still holds true over a half decade later. But as I pointed out even way back then, a listen is not the same as a writeup so I find it comforting to know that Camp Radio still has the goods to impress in whatever format they're [...]
Todd V Wolfson I feel that I should say up front that any reservations I have about Kathleen Edwards and her work are entirely my own issues. Since her 2002 debut Failer , I've enjoyed her honest, roots-rock fare but always felt like I expected more from her creatively even though across her first three albums, she'd never shown any signs that she had ambitions beyond being a good singer-songwriter. That said, the fact that she spent her downtime following 20082s Asking For Flowers [...]
Rae Spoon is no stranger to confounding people's expectations of him. Never one to settle for anyone's cut-and-dried categorization, on his latest LP, I Can't Keep All Of Our Secrets , Spoon undergoes a musical metamorphosis, giving way to the electro-pop sound he's been flirting with these past few years and letting his folky side lay low for the time being. His last LP, Love Is A Hunter hinted that Spoon was moving closer to the dance floor, but ...Secrets is a full-on conversion from analogue to digital. It's also an album [...]
Frank Yang Joel Plaskett is a guy who's established that he's not averse to applying a little bit of high concept to his brand of friendly, meat-and-potatoes rock - recall that his last release of new material, 20092s Three , was both triple-disced and triple-themed - so one shouldn't be too surprised that his next record also has to come with a bit of an explanation. As aux.tv reports, Plaskett and his band The Emergency will endeavour to record and release a new song every week [...]
Rae Spoon - Crash Landing
by nashawa Rae Spoon hails from Calgary (currently based in Montreal) and has an interesting and unique brand of indie-pop. Backed by VERY electronic beats (I don't really know how else to describe it, you'll see what I mean), Spoon delivers melodies heavily rooted in 802s pop fashion without sounding dated or played out. A very fun listen for anyone who is into melancholy/upbeat mixtures a la The Cure. Rae Spoon- Crash Landing
Just a quick hit today- with seemingly just about everything and everyone demanding my attention these days, squeezing in a new track has been proving more and more difficult, especially while I also try to whittle down all of the amazing 2011 releases into a top-10 list. But, better late than never, right? "Crash Landing" is the first single off Rae Spoon 's brand new LP, and continues the trend of his reinvention from muted acoustic songwriter to brightly-coloured electro-pop experimentalist. Disco-tinged percussion and dazzling keyboards blend together magnificently, lending Spoon an entirely new palette to paint with and affording him the [...]
(JJ Levine) When I first heard his music a few years back, Rae Spoon was making brilliant acoustic coloured, country flavoured folk tunes that landed his Superioryouareinferior LP on the QBiM favourite albums of 2008 chart. That record had hints about Spoon's dalliance with electronic music, but nothing as overt as his disco-delving next record, Love Is A Hunter , released last year. From all reports, Rae Spoon's transformation into a full-fledged electro-pop performer will be complete when he releases I Can't Keep All Of Our [...]
Idée Fixe When you've spent much of your life doing one thing, and that one thing draws to a close, it's not unreasonable to decide to do something completely the opposite next. So for Bry Webb to make his first post- Constantines record Provider a quiet, mainly acoustic affair only stands to reason - particularly for anyone who heard him operating as Harbourcoats before the Cons went on hiatus. But to suggest that Provider is just the Cons frontman gone unplugged is a grave [...]
La artista canadiense de folk Rae Spoon publicará nuevo disco el próximo 12 de enero de 2012 a través de Saved By Radio . Se llamará I Can't Keep All Of Our Secrets , contendrá nueve nuevas canciones y su portada es la que podéis ver justo aquí arriba. Sin embargo, parece que este nuevo trabajo hará que cambiemos definitivamente la etiqueta "country" de su música por otra bien distinta. Al parecer, según recoge la revista Exclaim! , el nuevo álbum supondrá un giro hacia la electrónica, [...]
One of the recent subjects of our Feedback series , Canadian country/folk artist Rae Spoon is readying the release of his next album, as Exclaim! points out. Due out January 12th via Saved By Radio, I Can't Keep All Of Our Secrets is billed as the singer's most electronically-tinged effort to date, with computer programming by Lesbians on Ecstasy's Lynne T and Berlin's Alexandre Decoupigny. However, lyrically, the material will still be your standard singer-songwriter fare, with tracks tackling "the complexity of grief", according to Spoon, and the death of one of his close [...]
rae spoon kommt aus den weiten der kanadischen prärie, hat seine musikalische karriere erwartungsgemäß im country-bereich begonnen und sich über ...
We've had our Friday Mixtapes, and our Top 10 mp3s. We've listed our favorites carefully, and shown you what albums we think deserve to be in the top 100 of all time. Now though, it's time to go the route of Carson Daly, and start counting down a new medium: Top 10 Videos. As some of you may, or may not, know, CoS has a video-counterpart, Cluster 1 . Every week, Cluster 1 dishes out a number of original, interesting, and visually unique videos; whether it's our original shows like Cluster 1 HANGOUT or No [...]
Recently, Consequence of Sound /Cluster 1 teamed up with Side B to deliver an exclusive (and highly intimate) interviews series called Feedback. With our first joint piece focusing on indie up-and-comer Cults , we now turn the spotlight toward female-to-male transgender recording artist Rae Spoon . Originally hailing from Calgary, AB, Spoon has been making his own brand of unique indie folk (with recent forays into infusing bits of electronica) over the last decade. While Spoon's reach may be minimal stateside, his native country seems to adore him, leading to his 2008 album [...]
Herohill delivers a tribute album of 'Hall and Oates' songs covered by Canadian artists.
People are re-discovering our Herohall & Oates comp today! We loved all the songs, but Rae Spoon's amazing Rich Boy might have been the "breakout" song from the comp. Hall & Oates covers though, still awesome! MP3:: Rae Spoon - Rich Boy WEB:: www.raespoon.com
Anton Corbijn It only took about six minutes via Twitter to announce the forty albums long-listed for the sixth edition of the Polaris Music Prize , we'll have the next three weeks to argue over their relative merits and come July 6, when the ten record-strong short list is announced, another couple months to hash those out before the September 19 gala in Toronto when a yet-to-be-determined grand jury declares their pick for the best Canadian album of the past year. And there's more at stake this year than in the past, [...]
Frank Yang You would think that my appreciation of a triple-bill of artists familiar and favoured would be of the "comfort food" variety more than anything else, but Saturday night's lineup at the Horseshoe featuring Jenn Grant , Rae Spoon and Olenka & The Autumn Lovers offered up more than its share of pleasant surprises. By rights, Olenka's superb second album And Now We Sing should have gotten a proper writeup hereabouts by now, but having stuck it on my 2010 year-end list [...]
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