Rae Spoon's electronic evolution hits the club
By Alexander Varty, February 3, 2011
http://www.straight.com/article-371148/vancouver/rae-spoons-electronic-evolution-hits-clubEarly reviews of Rae Spoon's Love Is a Hunter suggested that the Calgary-bred songwriter's latest album is a radical break from his past, most notably because several tracks sound a lot more like bed-sit electronica than the spare, country-tinged songs that marked earlier efforts. For Spoon, however, the new disc marks more of an evolution than a revolution: the real break, he says, came on his previous release, 2008's Superioryouareinferior.
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That's evident from Love Is a Hunter, which Spoon recorded in Calgary with coproducer and engineer Lorrie Matheson. Although the simple song structures reflect the transgender singer's background as a guitar-strumming folkie, tracks like "You Can Dance" and "dangerdangerdanger" merge retro-pop melodies with floor-filling grooves. Quite rightly, they suggest that Spoon's been spending a lot of time in clubs of late—but not always by choice.
