Spill Magazine Review
by -Christian Martius
The fourth country-folk album from Rae Spoon, Superioryouareinferior, covers the territories of territory. Songs deal with landscape and place and the workings of the human heart within them, a familiar theme of the traditional folk form and for a folk artist from the Canadian prairies such concerns are evidently prominent. The exterior of the natural world, from the grandeur of the Great Lakes to the wild grace of its feral inhabitants, figures heavily, as does the equally huge interior of the emotional and the profound. On a superficial level, it would be easy to write off Rae Spoon as just another rootsy local country artist, who is a member of the legion of rootsy local country artists that plough in the same well-furrowed folk field, if it wasn’t for the fact that Rae has a unique voice (as a transgender country singer) and incorporates an arsenal of electronic and electric elements into the more customary use of strings and the acoustic.
