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.

Now, Spencer is sharing his first new music since the release of North Wind which follows in the same vein. “Prairie Moon” is a song “about home, or rather the feeling of home. Life can take you places you might not want to be, at a time where the only thing giving you hope is the idea of home. I found home and hope could be found in simple things. Sharing the same sky, sharing the same sounds, sharing the same moon. Prairie Moon was written in two different places. While those places were incredibly distinct in their own ways, they both held one truth: The want for someplace better.”

On making North Wind, Spencer says, “I always felt this need for importance, this need to be poetic. It came, but it felt mandatory at times. I struggled with that,” says Spencer. “But then I found beauty in the simple things. A bird's song. A rustling gale. A ripple in the water. With the beauty of those simple things came importance and poetry in an unforced, natural way.”

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.”