Listening to Veirs is like looking up into the night sky and suddenly witnessing a meteor shower: there's something startling and magical, both intimate and awesome, about her songs. The nature-obsessed images she conjures up and the mesmerizing sound she creates are as indelible as the blaze of shooting stars. Her third Nonesuch release is her most beautifully realized, band-oriented yet. Produced by Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Built To Spill), it is by turns haunting, playful, tender, and fierce, e...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. A prolific writer and gifted musician, Veirs offers a haunting mix of deadpan folk and blues with sparse arrangements and Pacific Northwest flavors in her recordings. This is the vinyl version of "Years Of Meteors", a shimmery, summery album of pop and folk gems. The track "Galaxies" is an extended version with guest vocals by rapper Kotos The Rock Thrower. "All the songs are about transportation and movement," says Veirs, "..I think that's because I was in motion so much of the year. Somehow...   [ read more ]

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With her band The Tortured Souls, singer/songwriter/guitar player Laura Veirs recorded her new record, Year of Meteors, in Seattle in February of this year. She calls the album "a road record," drawing inspiration from being in constant motion for much of 2004, touring in support of the critically acclaimed Carbon Glacier. Produced by Tortured Soul band member, Tucker Martine, Year of Meteors' lyrics include dream-like images of sky and sea, punctuated by guitar bursts, handclaps and melodic keyboards and...   [ read more ]

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