Pop album review: Laura Veirs
LAURA VEIRS July Flame Bella Union £12.99
A new year and a fresh start for Laura Veirs, whose seventh album is stripped back to the essentials, recorded with long-time producer and now partner Tucker Martine down home in their new Portland abode.
Where once there was water now there is fire, more specifically the sun that ripens the titular variety of peach.
There is an elementary playfulness on songs such as Carole Kaye, and an ability to turn that into the complex on I Can See Your Tracks, or fragile beauty on Little Deschutes, while Make Something Good, her duet with Jim James of My Morning Jacket, positively radiates.
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• This article was first published in Scotland on Sunday on 24 January, 2010
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