Carbon Glacier (2004)

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Artist: Laura Veirs
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Format: CD
Buy.com Sku: 61702841
UPC: 075597985429
UPC 14: 00075597985429
Release Date: 8/24/2004
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Song Listing

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Disc 1
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1. Ether Sings ~ Laura Veirs
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2. Icebound Stream ~ Laura Veirs
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3. Rapture ~ Laura Veirs
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4. Lonely Angel Dust ~ Laura Veirs
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5. Cloud Room, The ~ Laura Veirs
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6. Wind is Blowing Stars ~ Laura Veirs
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7. Shadow Blues ~ Laura Veirs
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8. Anne Bonny Rag ~ Laura Veirs
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9. Snow Camping ~ Laura Veirs
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10. Chimney Sweeping Man ~ Laura Veirs
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11. Salvage a Smile ~ Laura Veirs
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12. Blackened Anchor ~ Laura Veirs
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13. Riptide ~ Laura Veirs
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Album Notes and Credits


Notes & Personnel Info
Muze PNote Personnel: Laura Veirs (vocals, guitar, banjolele, glockenspiel); Laura Veirs (banjo); Karl Blau (vocals, guitar, saxophone, synthesizer, bass instrument, drums, percussion); Keith Lowe (upright bass); Eyvind Kang (viola); Lori Goldston (cello); Steve Moore (trombone, piano, organ, vibraphone); Tucker Martine (drums, percussion).
Muze PNote Audio Mixer: Tucker Martine.
Muze PNote Recording information: Flora, Seattle, WA.
Muze PNote Laura Veirs' Seattle is not a city plagued by rain and enormous bowls of coffee; rather, it's a metropolitan snow globe trapped in a solid sheet of ice. The 13 songs that make up her fourth album (and Nonesuch debut), Carbon Glacier, rely on Veirs' free associating motor-mouth imagery to dig them out the tundra, and it's a testament to her skills as an interpreter that the majority of them break through. That's also thanks in part to the intricate arrangements and superb musicianship from her "Tortured Souls," Steve Moore, Karl Blau, and 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. Her ability to sound as comfortable singing over grungy and compressed drum loops as she does on simple folk tunes is admirable, and it makes all of the genre-hopping exceptionally fluid. Even at her warmest, she exudes a certain collegiate coolness, and when Carbon Glacier begins to drag -- and it does near the end -- Veirs manages to retain and command a level of anticipation/fascination that's the mark of a true artist. ~ James Christopher Monger

Producer: Tucker Martine; Tucker Martine

Engineer: Tucker Martine; Tucker Martine

Technical Info

Music Release Date Release Date : 08/24/2004
Music Original Release Date Original Release Date : 2004
Music CatalogId Catalog ID : 79854
Music Label Name Label : Nonesuch (USA)
Music Number of Discs Number of Discs : 1
Music Studio or Live Studio/Live : Studio
Music Mono or Stereo Mono/Stereo : Stereo
Music SPAR code SPAR Code : n/a
Music UPC UPC : 00075597985429

Professional Reviews

Uncut (p.75)
- Ranked #28 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "[T]hese songs of rebirth and natural wonder were as breathtaking as the wild vistas that inspired them."

Dirty Linen (p.83)
- "[A] sonic sensation, pieced together in evocative layers of guitar, vibraphone, trombone, banjo-uke, and other strange instruments."

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