{"id":8043,"date":"2013-11-19T16:18:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=8043"},"modified":"2013-11-19T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:18:07","slug":"rae-spoon-my-prairie-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/11\/19\/rae-spoon-my-prairie-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Rae Spoon \u2013 My Prairie Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This album is the score and soundtrack to a documentary musical film that is not yet released. It is about Rae Spoon\u2019s growing up and surviving a difficult childhood. I have not seen the film and make no claim to any familiarity with the particulars of Spoon\u2019s life, but this album tells a lot of the story.<\/p>\n

There are a few rollicking, upbeat songs but most leave enough space for the stories and mood to be focal points. Those stories deserve the emphasis, as there is enough emotion in here to make a rubber duck feel. Spoon unloads song after stark song in relating a childhood fraught with identity confusion and lonely terror. \u201cAmy Grant,\u201d<\/a> the very first track, sets the tone with jarring lyrics and sparse instrumental work. If it gets your attention, you will probably be hooked. \u201cCowboy\u201d<\/a> is an artful expression of the pain that always awaits an immature pretender, while \u201cSnake in the Water\u201d channels the fury of Spoon toward their \u201csnake\u201d father, who is held responsible for much of their pain. It would be a terribly sad album if not for, the closing song, \u201cCan\u2019t Tear It From Me,\u201d<\/a> which sounds like a celebration of a grandmother who helped Spoon learn to find home in love instead of a place, but I\u2019m very reluctant to be so presumptuous when an accompanying film will shortly fill in a lot of the blanks.<\/p>\n

Several tracks are atmospheric instrumentals or field recordings that will presumably serve as musical interludes during the film. There\u2019s a new version of \u201cLove is a Hunter\u201d here too, if you\u2019re into that kind of thing. I am not familiar enough with Spoon\u2019s prior work to say if any more of these songs are old ones, but can say this set of tunes makes me wish I were. (Saved By Radio, raespoon.com<\/a>) Daniel Emberg<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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