Fantastic. Whimsical. Feisty. Gutsy. Entrancing. Gremlinish.

  • I spy a tree fort, mud pies, a bell piano & three lullabies. A costume chest, a sequins dress and classic rock’s greatest hits. The magic flute, a cold lake of poems and a never ending tune.

  • February 2022, Janel will be releasing her second album Dinner With Stranger. Twelve songs and each of them are songs of their own, intercepting the world in surprising ways. Each of them investigates a different corner of life, stretching as Rae does to touch the limits of experience and the birth places of emotional and intellectual trajectories. At the same time the twelve songs together add up to something else. A kind of fleet footed and widely diverse suite, that seems to roam the home and realm of the young adult at the centre of each of the songs; surrounding her in an almost balletic fury where interior and exterior worlds encounter each other and inform one another.

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I Know I Wear Dead People’s Clothes

Toronto Songwriter, Janel Rae, is on a roll. Less than 9 months after the release of her critically acclaimed second album, Dinner with Stranger (“Romantic… powerful… honest” -Dominionated), she’s back with her strongest, most cohesive work yet, I Know I Wear Dead People’s Clothes

THE LATEST

FAITH NOLAN AWARD FOR MUSIC 2022

3rd Place Winner for Adam & What I Learned at School

Honourable Mention for Answer me, Nellie & Hooks

Dinner With Stranger OUT NOW.

You will leave the album and it’s protagonist utterly transformed. A work of art to be cherished and a fresh new mind in music to get very excited about.

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