Little Spoon: “Hurts Me Every Time”.

16 Feb 2012 — Henning Lahmann

After a prolonged creative hiatus due to tribulations related to work, love and life in general, Rochester, New York-born Cameron Potter, who records as Little Spoon, finally managed to focus his energies on music again after moving to Boston, where he not only finally met likeminded musicians but also accomplished a desperately needed shift of perspective. The result of the newly found freedom is the tellingly titled full-length Allergic to Jerks, an album that is supposed to be, in the artist's words, "pretty much a loosely focused reflection on the last year of my life, everything from my break up with my longtime baby and quitting my job and leaving my home, with just a general message to try and reflect on yourself and realize what's really important in life". And indeed it's an effort that feels highly and at times almost achingly intimate and personal, built around painful and straightforward song titles such as "Happy Being Poor", "I Keep Having Dreams That You Let Me Come Back Home", or the beautifully sad and stripped-down loner pop piece "Hurts Me Every Time", which you can listen to below. Musically, Allergic to Jerks is appropriately slow and restrained, an echo- and reverb-laden work of cloud gazing, post-AC dream pop, mildly experimental and invariably open-minded, witnessing the development of a musician who has found a new home in every respect. Allergic to Jerks is now available via bandcamp. A tape release is planned to follow sometime soon via Kassette Klub. Read more → After a prolonged creative hiatus due to tribulations related to work, love and life in general, Rochester, New York-born Cameron Potter, who records as Little Spoon, finally managed to focus his energies on music again after moving to Boston, where he not only finally met likeminded musicians but also accomplished a desperately needed shift of perspective. The result of the newly found freedom is the tellingly titled full-length Allergic to Jerks, an album that is supposed to be, in the artist's words, "pretty much a loosely focused reflection on the last year of my life, everything from my break up with my longtime baby and quitting my job and leaving my home, with just a general message to try and reflect on yourself and realize what's really important in life". And indeed it's an effort that feels highly and at times almost achingly intimate and personal, built around painful and straightforward song titles such as "Happy Being Poor", "I Keep Having Dreams That You Let Me Come Back Home", or the beautifully sad and stripped-down loner pop piece "Hurts Me Every Time", which you can listen to below. Musically, Allergic to Jerks is appropriately slow and restrained, an echo- and reverb-laden work of cloud gazing, post-AC dream pop, mildly experimental and invariably open-minded, witnessing the development of a musician who has found a new home in every respect. Allergic to Jerks is now available via bandcamp. A tape release is planned to follow sometime soon via Kassette Klub.