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
Tracklisting
Laura Veirs
Laura Veirs
Laura Veirs
Laura Veirs
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Laura Veirs
Laura Veirs
Laura Veirs
Laura Veirs
Laura Veirs
Laura Veirs
Laura Veirs
Laura Veirs
Laura Veirs
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