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Carbon Glacier

Laura Veirs

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Format: LP

Cat No: LPRMB011LE

Format Details: Lp /

Release Date:  12 October 2018

Label:  Raven Marching Band

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  843563106082

Genres:  Indie  Singer Songwriter  

Release Date:  22 October 2021

Label:  Raven Marching Band

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  634457056459

Genres:  Indie  Singer Songwriter  

  • Description

    On her Nonesuch debut Carbon Glacier, Veirs reimagines folk music in a bravely boundary-crossing way, employing the genre as a jumping-off point to create an intimate, affecting sound entirely her own. The Independent described it as a benchmark by which future Americana releases will be judged. Uncut simply declared Carbon Glacier Veirs first masterpiece.


    Veirs' songs are steeped in natural imagery, blending influences ranging from folk to blues to punk. A Seattle (now Portland) resident by way of Colorado, Veirs background in geology and kinship with the rugged landscape she grew up in meld together with her punk and country blues roots to form an unusual musical outlook.

    Description

    Limited Black and Clear Vinyl release of Laura Veirs' "Carbon Glacier".
    Originally released on CD in 2004, later released on vinyl in 2007 and out of print since 2010 and widely seen as a groundbreaking album in the Laura Veirs canon.

    "With her landmark fourth album, Veirs evoked the Pacific Northwest in climactic imagery" - Uncut.

    "Carbon Glacier is a cold, beautiful and engaging record that translates the bleak, isolated vastness of nature into the bleak, isolated vastness of the modern city-sprawl, leaving one voice to sing in solitude." - Pitchfork.

    "This is an oddly beautiful album - far more engaging than you'd expect of one written in a grey Seattle winter, pondering mortality, Moby Dick and the great sheet of blackened ice after which it's named." - The Guardian 

    Producer/drummer Tucker Martine (Modest Mouse). Martine allows the experimentation to bloom in all the right places, resulting in a record that never overworks itself, despite being packed to the gills with ghostly glockenspiels, organs, random percussion, and trombone. "Veirs' hypnotic voice cuts through it all with deadpan sincerity -- she's equally capable of pitch-perfect beauty ("Lonely Angel Dust") or tightrope uneasiness ("Icebound Stream") -- that comes off somewhere between Nina Nastasia and Jolie Holland." - All Music Guide

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Ether Sings
      • 2. Icebound Stream
      • 3. Rapture
      • 4. Lonely Angel Dust
      • 5. The Cloud Room
      • 6. Wind Is Blowing Stars
      • 7. Shadow Blues
      • 8. Anne Bonny Rag
      • 9. Snow Camping
      • 10. Chimney Sweeping Man
      • 11. Salvage A Smile
      • 12. Blackend Anchor
      • 13. Riptide

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Ether Sings
      • 2. Icebound Stream
      • 3. Rapture
      • 4. Lonely Angel Dust
      • 5. The Cloud Room
      • 6. Wind Is Blowing Stars
      • 7. Shadow Blues
      • 8. Anne Bonny Rag
      • 9. Snow Camping
      • 10. Chimney Sweeping Man
      • 11. Salvage A Smile
      • 12. Blackened Anchor
      • 13. Riptide