SPENCER BURTON SHARES HIS NEW SINGLE “TIME”, OUT TODAY VIA DINE ALONE RECORDS
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Home, as we so often hear, is where the heart is. It’s where you belong and where your story begins. There’s no place like it, but paradoxically, it’s not a place; it’s a feeling –simultaneously sweet, simple, the anchor of the soul.
Over the course of his last two lauded LPs – 2024’s North Wind and 2021’s Coyote – Spencer Burton deeply considered and contemplated the concept, even retreating to a secluded cabin in the sticks of Northern Ontario to record the former and find “home” for himself.
Ultimately he did, but that blissful discovery would soon be tempered by an unforeseen burden, and in his new music, Burton ruminates on how to return to it.
This rings especially true on the new single “Time”, of which Burton says: “Things can happen in life that leave one realizing how precious time is. Seconds turn into minutes, turn into hours, turn into months. It’s about healing, and caring. Beginning and end. Time.”
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MORE ABOUT SPENCER BURTON
Spencer Burton’s songwriting is beautifully delicate and dulcet – the purest distillation of his prolific, decades-long pursuit in the arts, spanning his roots in Ontario’s seminal early-00s punk scene to his dark-tinged alt-country stylings as Grey Kingdom through to the candid, compelling country-folk catalogue of the last decade-plus, fittingly released under his given name.
His latest works have earned acclaim from esteemed outlets like Exclaim! and the CBC, a coveted Canadian Folk Music Awards nomination, major tours supporting the likes of Burton Cummings and City and Colour, and high-profile slots at revered festivals from Mariposa to Riverfest.
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For his 2024 album, North Wind, Spencer Burton retreated to a small off-grid cabin in Northern Ontario, reconnected with nature and found peace and comfort in isolation. Taking a step back from the realities of life let him step back into making music after some time away.
The majority of North Wind was written in the north woods, in solitude and reflection. And while the songs have a spiritual importance, they also speak to ordinary life away from it all–fishing, an encounter with a coyote, sitting with your own thoughts.
“It’s really interesting what pleases the ear, musically, when isolated for a few weeks at a time. The only inspiration being yourself and the beauty of true untampered nature. It’s a different atmosphere than what we’re accustomed to. It really helped bring these songs to life.”
“I’m not really trying to write music these days,” says Spencer. “I’m trying to write good feelings.”