Spencer Burton

Already living quietly in a slow country town, a period of intense world isolation prompted Spencer Burton to leave the city even further behind. An overload of negative information and fear left him feeling hopeless and uninspired to create music. He sat back for a couple of years watching what felt like the world crumbling around him.

Retreating to a small off-grid cabin in Northern Ontario, Spencer 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.

“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…