That time Rae Spoon cancelled their tours due to COVID-19 and then found out they had cancer I only met Rae Spoon once, when they were just starting to tour superioryouareinferior. That 2008 album is a lot of things, and haunting is one of them. If there was ever a perfect encapsulation of what it feels like to live in a place where the whole culture of resource extraction and boom/bust had/has defined generations of people, then “My Heart is a Piece of Garbage Fight Seagulls! Fight!” is it. Fight, Rae. Fight.
and previouslyier (WARNING: all kinds of opinions on pronouns in the comments and a few that seem.. especially reactionary, in an almost-10-years-ago kind of way)