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- Carbon Glacier
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Laura Veirs
Released 2004

Ether Sings
03:44
7,003 plays

Icebound Stream
03:04
4,442 plays

Rapture
03:06
3,722 plays

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- 1
- Ether Sings
- 03:44
- 7,003 plays

- 2
- Icebound Stream
- 03:04
- 4,442 plays

- 3
- Rapture
- 03:06
- 3,722 plays

- 4
- Lovely Angel Dust
- 02:38
- 1,946 plays

- 5
- The Cloud Room
- 02:52
- 2,023 plays

- 6
- Wind Is Blowing Stars
- 02:43
- 1,705 plays

- 7
- Shadow Blues
- 04:20
- 1,804 plays

- 8
- Anne Bonny Rag
- 02:15
- 1,571 plays

- 9
- Snow Camping
- 03:12
- 1,869 plays

- 10
- Chimney Sweeping Man
- 03:13
- 3,484 plays

- 11
- Salvage A Smile
- 01:52
- 1,507 plays

- 12
- Blackened Anchor
- 02:05
- 1,506 plays

- 13
- Riptide
- 04:16
- 1,454 plays

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album review

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, All Music Guide