Year of Meteors, by Laura Veirs

Year of Meteors

by Laura Veirs

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luc_lajoie_2018 I had Galaxies stuck in my head for the last week... Favorite track: Galaxies.

Carsten Pieper I think the music can be described as Cosmic Americana with a subtle pop touch here and there. The arrangements are elegantly sparse and the songwriting is outstanding. Great album!
And I keep switching favourites because there are so many fantastic songs on offer... ;-) Favorite track: Parisian Dream.

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1.	Fire Snakes 04:57	buy track
2.	Galaxies 03:35	buy track
3.	Secret Someones 05:15	buy track
4.	Magnetized 02:37	buy track
5.	Parisian Dream 03:05	buy track
6.	Rialto 03:59	buy track
7.	Through the Glow 02:41	buy track
8.	Cool Water 02:51	buy track
9.	Spelunking 03:06	buy track
10.	Black Gold Blues 03:10	buy track
11.	Where Gravity Is Dead 03:40	buy track
12.	Lake Swimming 03:34	buy track
13.	Magnetized Phone Call 01:37	buy track

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“Like a latter-day Romantic poet, Veirs maps her feelings across the landscape and the cosmos.” – Critic’s Choice, New York Times

On Year Of Meteors (2005), familiar surroundings come into sharper focus as the lyrical themes of the sky and outer space now seem mysterious, magical and new. Veirs’ lyrical allusions to the natural world are disarmingly dreamlike yet scientifically precise. Using synergistic elements of contemporary folk, Americana, alternative rock and laptop style electronics, she creates an amalgam that remains her own. There's an elegantly sad quality, a jagged yearning, forcing you to be silent witness to this exquisite, seductive pain. With soft electronic rhythms and tape loops bubbling underneath, her impassive voice lays out rich melodies that build and explode around standout tracks like “Galaxies” and “Parisian Dreams.”

With its brooding intellectualism, intricate arrangements, and clever wordplay, Laura Veirs' 2004 debut on Nonesuch, Carbon Glacier, found its way on to a great many critic's "best-of" lists (and rightfully so). The Portland-based singer/songwriter once again pays homage to her geology background with Years of Meteors, a diverse collection of meandering pop songs that parallel her most recent European/American tour. Transience is the common theme here, and Veirs sets her enviable verbal skills to task on standout tracks like "Magnetize," "Parisian Dream," and "Secret Someone" -- the latter boasts a divine bit of travel-weary imagery: "A smile would melt me to an asphalt strip/where all would travel/where all would tread and trip." As with Glacier, Veirs employs her trusted backup band, the Tortured Souls, to flesh out the material. Led by drummer/producer Tucker Martine, they sound like a tightly knit group now, trading tasteful licks and never overplaying. Flashes of viola, upright bass, and ultra-compressed percussion float in and out. That Veirs manages to keep the mood so sparse while so much is going on is impressive in its own right, but it's that old reliable brooding intellectualism, the intricate arrangements, and the clever wordplay that will keep listeners glued to each and every track.

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released October 12, 2018

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Laura Veirs Portland, Oregon

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