Warp And Weft - CD
From one of the country’s most inimitable songwriters – Portland, Oregon’s Laura Veirs – comes her ninth full-length album. Beautiful, lush and at times deeply dark, Warp and Weft captures the intensity of motherhood, love and violence. Primarily electric-guitar driven, it is a fever dream of an album and could well be Veirs’ best work to date. It builds on the uniform praise and commercial success of 2010's July Flame, which Utne Reader dubbed “idiosyncratic and captivating” and received glowing reviews from The New York Times, Pitchfork, NPR and others.
TRACKLIST: 1. Sun Song 2. America 3. Finster Saw the Angels 4. Dorothy of the Island 5. Shape Shifter 6. Ghosts of Louisville 7. Say Darlin' Say 8. That Alice 9. Ikaria 10. Sadako Folding Cranes 11. Ten Bridges 12. White Cherry
The recording of "Warp and Weft" (a weaving term) was a community effort. Produced in Portland in March 2013 by Veirs’ longtime collaborator Tucker Martine, the album features Jim James, kd lang, Neko Case, Brian Blade, members of The Decemberists and many more.