Spencer Radcliffe has always let his songs speak for themselves. Whether it's with his band Spencer Radcliffe & Everyone Else, his long-running ambient project Blithe Field, or his now-defunct emo bands Best Witches and California Furniture, the 25-year-old Chicago-via-Ohio songwriter has avoided interviews and almost anything resembling an online presence. He only recently joined Twitter but uses it so sparingly he's only posted 19 times since November. Sounds like a good life, eh?
"I'm private in nature in the first place," he says. "I don't think I've ever really been too keen on talking about much of anything I do, music or otherwise," Then he adds that the idea of discussing his own music feels like when his parents would ask him about his classes as a kid.
That's not the most encouraging thing to hear before an interview—especially if it's the only one he's giving about his excellent new album Enjoy The Great Outdoors (Run For Cover) under the name Spencer Radcliffe & Everyone Else. But Radcliffe, though guarded, is undeniably warm and thoughtful in person. Before our chat, he insists on showing me around the old and spacious Humboldt Park house he shares with some of his bandmates (where they practice in the basement). During the tour, Pacey, his sweet and shy adopted hound mix, anxiously follows. "That's her pound name, she got it she used to walk in circles all the time and she still does it when she's really nervous," he says.
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