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The Inside Pulse:
Can I have another? And another? What about one more? If Years of the Meteors was a alcoholic beverage, I’d be intoxicated because I can’t get enough. Laura Veirs seems to draw from a pool of influences such as her background in geology, her Seattle home by way of Colorado and past punk performing roots. However, Veirs brings her own unique conglomerate style with her talented band, The Tortured Souls, and poetic lyrics to influence others. Years of the Meteors, her fourth album, is my first exposure to her music and I wonder how could I and the rest of the world not know how talented Laura Veirs is until now.
Positives:
Veirs music relies on her strong narrative poetry lyrics and neo-folk/rock instrumentals and neither fail her. “Fire Snakes” (“To dress up your wounds / Wash off the salt / Freshen the blooms / At your sea-rusted altar”) and “Black Gold Blues” (“I’m gonna dig / For pretty and strange / Gonna open me up / A black gold vein”) are the stand-outs in their raw, intense sound fueled with diversity and imagery filled lyrics.
Each song tells a different story but transitions very well track to track.
Negatives:
“Lake Swimming” is good lyrically because it connects “Fire Snakes” and “Cool Water” specifically by similar lyrical images but it is the longest track on the record, because once the song ends the listener has three minutes of dead air before you get a untitled track.
Cross-Breed:
Tracy Shedd, The Rosebuds, KT Tunstall
Reasons to buy:
I can’t stop playing this record that it’s going to take some reasoning to get it out of my CD player for a while. Not something you hear everyday, however, it is everyday life told beautifully, the way tragedies and triumph should be celebrated.
