Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers
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Artist: Laura VeirsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-04-10
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- Pink Light
- Ocean Night Song
- Don't Lose Yourself
- Drink Deep
- Wandering Kind
- Nightingale
- Saltbreakers
- To the Country
- Cast a Hook in Me
- Phantom Mountain
- Black Butterfly
- Wrecking
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Free Music Review: Nature taking its course
Hit: 5 Stars
Well she looks a little like Woody Allen in a wig, she definately leans a little to the wacko side and the lyrics veer occasionally into a twee, cringy dead end. But don't let that stop you. I've had this album for about a month or so now and its has slowly and craftily enveloped my listening experience, creeping into my life just like the 2nd CD of Kate Bush's "Aerial" did. The songs, chock full of images of nature and its landscapes, are wonderfully played by her band, now apparently named The Saltbreakers. The title track is a joy with the band's pirate-like responses on the chorus reminding me curiously of those old silly Gary Glitter singles or Ian Dury's "Do It Your self" period. This collection is helping me survive a Toronto winter that is now threatening to stretch gloomily into Mid-March. It's infused with winning optimism and superior, consistantly great songwriting and performances.
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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, embracing everything from machine-driven beats to angelic gospel choirs to fuzzed-out guitars, and driving alt-rock rhythms.What Suzanne Vega was to the East Coast--working at the intersection of folk and art songs--Laura Veirs has become to the Pacific Northwest. With organic imagery and a sense of open-eyed, open-hearted wonder, her songs seem to hover between the sea and the stars and to take inspiration from each. Though "To the Country" is the undisputed highlight here, featuring a luminous call-and-response with the Cedar Hill Choir and guest guitar from Bill Frisell, Veirs extends her range from the soul groove of the title track (which is also now the name of her band, formerly the Tortured Souls) to the propulsive rock of "Phantom Mountain." Even when her material flirts with preciousness ("Nightingale") or conforms more to folk convention, the musical settings entrance. --Don McLeese
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