Crash Landing

Rae Spoon

Rae Spoon is set to release his third album I Can’t Keep All Of Our Secrets on January 10th. The dancey “Crash Landing” is the lead off single, which completes the transition between Spoon’s earlier country-singer-songwriter work to synth-heavy pop. Rae Spoon seems to have carved a niche making thoughtful dance music for people who don’t frequent clubs. If you like what you hear, you can grab a download of “Crash Landing” from Soundcloud.

Spoon has some comprehensive Canadian tour dates coming up to support the album’s release in the new year. I for one would love to see how his sound translates to the nightclubs he tends to eschew.

Tour dates:

1/19 Montreal, QC - Casa Del Popolo *
1/20 Sudbury, ON - Cinco’s
1/21 Orillia, ON - TBA
1/22 Guelph, ON - House Concert
1/26 St Catharines, ON - Rise Above Restaurant
1/27 Toronto, ON - The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom
1/28 Ottawa, ON - SAW Gallery
1/29 Peterborough, ON - TBA
2/3 Fredericton, NB - Gallery Connexion
2/4 Halifax, NS - The Company House^ 

2/5 Sackville, NB - Bridge Street Cafe
2/11 Victoria, BC - Solstice Cafe
2/19 Vancouver, BC - TBA
2/22 Saskatoon, SK - TBA
2/23 Brandon, MB - BFMAF Studio
2/24 Winnipeg, MB - Gio’s
2/25 Regina, SK - Artesian on 13th
2/29 Calgary, AB - Broken City
3/1 Camrose, AB - Scalliwags Pub and Rum Bar
3/2 Edmonton, AB - the Artery
3/3 Jasper, AB - TBA
3/4 Williams Lake, BC - Central Cariboo Arts Center
* with Echo Beach
^ with Nolan Natasha
& with Tender Forever
# Your Heart Breaks

“[trigger warning: homophobic slurs] The thing about Calgary was that boys didn't really need to be gay to get called "faggot." You only had to do something a little out of the ordinary, like grow your hair long or play the acoustic guitar. And if you were a girl, all you had to do was cut your hair short or stand up to boys and you would be called a dyke. There was one punk boy at school who had green hair; in grade ten he got beaten up so much that he transferred to the downtown school after a few months. There was danger in being different and there was safety in numbers. That's why the straight kids who were grunge were treated the same as the gay kids. We were all fags in the eyes of our school.”

—“With a Little Help from Grunge” in First Spring Grass Fire by Rae Spoon. 

“While I waited, I threw myself into books, sometimes reading most of my waking hours. All I had to do was scan my eyes over the words and let them fill my mind. I would be transported somewhere else. In every other aspect of life, though, I felt like I was just going through the motions. I was a secret agent and infiltrator, but no one else knew. A few years later, I started writing stories. Each one felt like a small piece of the world I was building that I was eventually going to move into, one where babies didn't get taken away, and Sasquatches didn't exist.”

—“Sasquatch in My Shower” in First Spring Grass Fire by Rae Spoon.

Kind of excited to see Rae Spoon meow. :D

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