“Montreal-via-Bowen Island, BC's Lauren Spear bookends her sophomore album as Le Ren with a quote as it was told to her: "He said, 'A song could love you back.'"
To summon that line here, then, is to quote a quote. Don't Be Funny Without Me is replete with such intertextual layers that feel hard-pressed to be contained within a couple of extra punctuation marks — especially when Spear herself is a”
