Try Again At Everything

I Hear Them Calling

Ocean Blue

There Is A Light

2018

bodiesofwater released nationally and internationally.

2017

Rae Spoon and director Chelsea Mcmullan win the Grand Prize from Storyhive for the music video for song “I Hear Them Calling”

Rae Spoon published Instructional booklet How To (Hide) Be(hind) Your Songs

2016

Album Armour released and Rae Spoon called “one of Canada’s most important working musicians” by Now Magazine.

Armour is nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award.

2015

Rae Spoon and Ivan Coyote’s book Gender Failure is translated into and published in Germany.

2014

My Prairie Home long-listed for Polaris Prize.

Sundance Film Festival Features My Prairie Home

2013

Rae Spoon on the Cover Of Now Magazine September 2013.

Rae Spoon book nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.

2012

Rae Spoon releases I Can’t Keep All Of Our Secrets and tours internationally.

2011

Rae Spoon composed the score for CBC documentary Transforming Family.

2010

Rae Spoon album Love Is A Hunter is released

2009

superioryouareinferior long-listed for Polaris Prize.

2008

superioryouareinferior released to rave reviews and called Rae Spoon’s breakout album.

2007

Rae Spoon tours continental Europe for the first time.

2006

Rae Spoon tours Australia for the first time.

2005

Rae Spoon tours the United Kingdom for the first time.

2004

Rae Spoon plays almost all major folk festivals in western Canada sharing stages with acts like Emmy Lou Harris, Earl Scruggs, Lucinda Wiliams, Steve Earle.

2003

Rae Spoon first full-length album released with Canadian tours.

2002

Rae Spoon tour the USA for the first time.

2001

Rae Spoon performs at many major festivals at the age of 20

PRESS LIST

Armour finds Spoon returning to the electronic textures and soundscapes that their music has been incorporating, rather than the organic folk-tinged instrumentation found on Polaris Prize-nominated My Prairie Home, the soundtrack album for the documentary. The album also skews a little louder and a little more upbeat, with the audience in mind.

vueweekly.com

 

Spoon’s poignant, raw musicality paired with their evocative, powerful vocals have spoken to Canadians across the nation, especially within the queer community.

thegatewayonline.ca

 

Montreal-based indie/pop singer-songwriter Rae Spoon is gathering a lot of attention for their eighth album Armour

themanitoban.com

 

The new album, Armour, which has been about two years in the making, is a sonic fusion of electronic and singer-songwriter elements.

edmontonexaminer.com

 

On Armour, Spoon takes on many battles from depression to appropriation, always weighing the good and the bad with even consideration. Ultimately, though, listeners will leave the album with a sense of hope. Most importantly, it promotes optimism, empowerment and the idea that you write your own story.

CBC Music Track by Track Guide

music.cbc.ca

 

The album, Spoon’s eighth solo release, is another stellar electro-based offering of dreamy, rounded and sweetly pleasing pop with, as always, an aftertaste of pretty melancholia.

Calgary Herald

calgaryherald.com

 

Spoon’s new album, Armour, just dropped, with an upbeat message of conquest and strength yet also highlighting the vulnerability they first became known for.

planetsmag.com

 

With Armour, Rae Spoon has recorded one of the best albums of the year, and made a very h1 case that they’re one of best, and most important, songwriters in Canada. Perfect electronic pop songs that groove, tear at your heart, and seek to create real change.

silentshout.ca

 

Armour, their new album, the most Rae Spoon has ever sounded like Rae Spoon. Wearing all those layers at once–acoustic instruments, electronic programming; poppy dance rhythms and hymn-like balladry; that unmistakable voice–Spoon sounds settled in their own skin, allowing these new songs to soar with confidence and clarity.

quickbeforeitmelts.ca

 

The album perfectly blends the dark and light into something that is honest and hopeful. They were conscious of writing for other people who have also experienced difficulties.

thestarphoenix.com

 

Steeped in personal themes and experience, Spoon’s body of work is truly singular

theconcordian.com
metronews.ca

 

On Armour, Spoon also explores the idea of creating meaning for oneself, ultimately

vancouverweekly.com

 

No longer bound by extramusical restraints, Spoon looked back over their record collection, as well as their own deep discography, and asked “what is it that makes a Rae Spoon record?” The answer is somewhere in these Essential Albums.

chartattack.com

 

Spoon’s new work is an organic mix of acoustic drums and electronic production leaning in an indie-dance direction, amongst a loose collective of queer artists and writers working in that realm of sound.

exclaim.ca

 

this album is their most mature yet

grayowlpoint.com

 

Armour is their slickest, most upbeat sounding album yet.

vancouverweekly.com

 

Much hangs in a fine balance in the 10 songs the transgender artist presents on new LP Armour: synths and electronic percussion alongside guitars and Spoon’s evergreen vocals, melodic pop and sharply drawn verses, hope and despair. It’s not so much a turning away from the more agrarian approach of much-admired My Prairie Home as it is a return to a career arc of uncommon conviction and variety that 2013 multimedia project interrupted and amplified.

thestar.com
The latest album from the gifted Canadian singer-songwriter Rae Spoon is Armour, an album recognizable by its armadillo artwork and lean electro-dance arrangements. It’s a reaction to the 2013 LP My Prairie Home, a deeply personal opening up to her audience that left the musician questioning the need for boundaries and protection. Intensely human but still hummable, the songs of Armour are thoughtful reflections on the fortresses we all need, sung by an artist who knows that “we are not made to be broken, even by our own hands.

theglobeandmail.com

 

Spoon is an ever-evolving, distinctive experimental artist.

theovercast.ca

 

LIVE REVIEWS

Rae Spoon is one of the most important musicians working in Canada today.

nowtoronto.com

 

The mark of a gifted songwriter is the ability to create the most emotion with the fewest notes. Rae Spoon is a master of restraint, conveying both hope and hurt at once through simple melodies, a skill that led to their Polaris Music Prize nomination for 2013’s My Prairie Home.

exclaim.ca

 

Rae Spoon’s performance exceeded and built upon the original studio-recorded material, especially during the second half of the performance. The second half of their set drove head first into bellowing electronica that got the concert hall shaking, a h1 increase in tempo from the more soft-rock inspired first half. Their performance made me see the value in coming to see a live performance of the album material that I had grown to enjoy in the weeks prior to the concert. Rae’s voice enveloped the audience in a dreamlike defiance of the sexual constraints that I feel comfortable in saying that many people in the room had experienced at least once in their lives before. It was the type of subtle rebellion that is refreshing in the vast ocean of name-calling and shouting matches that populates much of social politics today.

citr.ca

 

Few people can hold a room’s attention like Rae Spoon did upstairs at the Rocket Room on Thursday. Sure, it’s a sit down kinda spot, but Spoon’s natural knack for storytelling had the crowd hanging off their every word. Just a few of the topics touched on: our broken justice system, ending your day as a musician and “scaring the s$$# out of yourself” by playing a show, loving getting the “retirement time slot” on a bill, getting a driver’s license after two decades of having a learner’s permit, and convincing their friend to lick slugs.
 
Not to mention the tunes were raw and affecting. Opener “Lighthouse,” from all the way back in 2010, started the set on a powerful, stripped-down note, but the rest of it was adorned with some bells and whistles, as loop pedals and drum machines and even the crowd backed them up.
 The atmosphere was laid back, friendly, and warm, and touched by a revitalizing amount of laughter. Plus, the dirty version of a new single ended the whole thing on a beautifully defiant note, as the crowd gently sang along: “Do whatever the heck you waaaant, do whatever the heck you want.

exclaim.ca

 

PHOTOS

Bookings and Record Label coaxrecords(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)gmail.com
Publicity kb(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)killbeatmusic.com
Website www.raespoon.com
Label Website www.coaxrecords.com

EPK ONE SHEET

One Sheet For Media and Promoters: Here

STAGE PLOTS

Solo: Backline Rae Spoon Solo Stage Plot 2018

With band on request at coaxrecords(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)gmail.com