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LAURA VEIRS - Saltbreakers
| AV Club | | Laura Veirs has always been a stronger lyricist than she is a singer, guitar player, and bandleader: Her albums are loaded with more wordplay than you can shake a Roget's at. Though her folk-pop songs sometimes tread dangerously close to sad-girl-with-a-guitar territory, they're inevitably buoyed by shimmering instrumentation and ethereal delivery. Her last album, 2005's excellent Year Of Meteors, was a great leap forward, as she and her unfortunately named backing band, The Tortured Souls, finally gelled, creating consistently tight, tasteful arrangements that never wallowed in their own introspection....full text |
| | Dotmusic | | Earth sciences. So often overlooked as a source of inspiration by our clay-footed pop community. It takes a geology graduate, with a guitar and a knack for melody, to be able to unlock the magic in the natural world and commit it to, so far, four albums. In "Saltbreakers" (a term for waves) the Colorado-raised, Portland-based singer-songwriter follows on in a similar vein to 2005's "Year Of Meteors" and "Carbon Glacier" before that: guitar and piano-based Americana, sprinkled with ethereal chamberlin (vintage Mellotron-like keyboard), viola, marimba and flugelhorn and topped by the most unadorned voice in alt-folk, singing lyrics of almost nerdy intelligence....full text |
| | DustedMagazine | | “Sorry I was cold, I was protecting myself,” Laura Veirs begins, the first line in the first song (“Pink Light”) of her sixth luminous album, in a voice that is clear and pure and vibrato-free with just the hint of a child’s blurry vulnerability at the edges. It sounds personal, confessional, unadorned and yet with the next line the verse turns fancifully metaphoric. “Drifting along with my swords out flying /Tattering my own sails and I tattered yours, too.” It is the first in a salvo of 12 episodes of songwriterly magical realism, set in tidal pools and seagoing vessels and populated with pirates and mermaids and sentient forest fires....full text |
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