Laura Veirs

The Seattle chanteuse creates another gorgeous high-concept album. This time her organizing principle is travel, whether a blighted vacation or fighting the inertia of staying in a bad relationship. Veirs' brittle images are an icy dose of unwelcome pain, and her narrative is so specific it's hard not to think this is her own autobiography despite her exquisite detachment.

Laura Veirs is a thirty-year-old Seattle-ite and former geology student who specializes in
guitar poetry that's often quietly beautiful and sometimes just quiet. Her fifth album is a
folk-schooled reverie with a dark undercurrent, as Veirs drops lovelorn minor-key
ruminations and cascading choruses while her band fills in the blank spots with strings,
keyboards and sculpted guitar noise. Veirs' gentle delivery suits the studied nat... More >