What Are You Waiting For Review – Quick Before It Melts October 2009

If you’ve spent any significant time ’round these parts, you’d know I’m fond of a certain trans-sexual folk/country singer from Calgary by the name of Rae Spoon.  Bryan from Herohill tipped me off to a fantastic collaboration Spoon has done with multi-media artist Alexandre Decoupigny that blends Spoon’s folk sounds with a more European back beat.  The project is called What Are You Waiting For? (Worauf Wartest Du?), and is based on teh desires and dreams of those standing on the platform waiting for German subways.  Hey, if Sufjan Stevens can write a symphony for an expressway, I don’t see why this can’t work.  And it does, beautifully.