★★★★★
Warp and Weft is Laura Veir's ninth studio album, and if you like her previous efforts, you'll like this one too. It doesn't differ much; offering more of her simplistic lyrics, pedal guitar and multitude of jazz, folk and rock guest artists.
From a non-fan's point of view, the album begins well with the gorgeous 'Sun Song'; from the opening bars this is evocative of riding Route 66 with the top down in 70s California with Neko Case adding her own brand of cool...
- www.undertheradar.co.nz
2013-09-23
★★★★★
Laura Veirs has quietly become something of an institution in American songwriting circles, and Warp And Weft, her ninth record, is a Trojan horse of an album. Initially pleasant and noticeably accomplished, it grows with each listen into something beloved, subtly poetic and rewarding.
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-09-12
★★★★★
Warp & Weft was conceived while Portland, Oregon-based singer-songwriter Laura Veirs was pregnant with her second child. The ninth studio album in a productive career sees Veirs juggling the contentment of motherhood with preoccupations of fear and tragedy. "I'm haunted by the idea that something terrible could happen to my kids but that fear pushes me to embrace the moment," Veirs explained in an accompanying press release, revealing the dichotomy of fear and love heard throughout...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-08-28
★★★★★
Laura Veirs' music is focused on her voice, lyrics, and guitar, but to call her simply a singer/songwriter misses the mark. It captures the pick-up-and-play directness of her songwriting while leaving out a whole other dimension: the formal distance and art-music aesthetics she brings to her albums. It's not that Veirs' songs-- where vestiges of jazz and blues enrich a sparse, rocky soil of folk and country-- couldn't be beat out on an acoustic guitar at a coffeehouse...
- pitchfork.com
2013-08-22
★★★★★
In the same year that 23 year-old Laura Marling released a fourth album that proved she's as good a songwriter as promised, one Laura Veirs releases her ninth and proves she's still as good a songwriter as ever - but not enough people know about it. Although she has 17 years on Marling, Veirs has occupied the same folk singer/songwriter sphere since her eponymous debut was released in 1999 but has remained something of a cult figure throughout that time...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-09-07
★★★★★
In the same year that 23 year-old Laura Marling released a fourth album that proved she's as good a songwriter as promised, one Laura Veirs releases her ninth and proves she's still as good a songwriter as ever but not enough people know about it. Although she has 17 years on Marling, Veirs has occupied the same folk singer/songwriter sphere since her eponymous debut was released in 1999 but has remained something of a cult figure throughout that time...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-08-21
★★★★★
At first, Warp and Weft doesn't seem all that different from Laura Veirs' past releases. From the first strums of the guitar, it's clearly a Laura Veirs record. Her melodic senses are still dead-on--fluctuating from gentle to vibrant at a moment's notice while her ever-soothing voice is as strong as can be. Displaying more of her raucous side, Warp and Weft is filled with tracks that easily find themselves among the best of her impressive catalog and manage to exceed expectations...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2013-08-21
★★★★★
Portland, Oregon singer-songwriter Laura Veirs named her ninth album after a knitting term, Warp and Weft, because she considers the disc a tapestry of different elements. It is true that Veirs incorporates a diversity of sounds, subjects, and motifs on the record. There is everything from a train roaring down the tracks to a bicycle bell gently ringing; a 30-second instrumental tune about ghosts to a lyrical one about the founding fathers of America rolling in their graves because of what the...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-08-19
★★★★★
With Warp and Weft, Laura Veirs delivers her most satisfying set of songs since Carbon Glacier, but here, the arrangements devised by Veirs and her partner/producer Tucker Martine are so much more expansive and illuminating, creating a rich tapestry of ideas and idioms.
As ever, elemental matters are one of Veirs' main themes, particularly her keen apprehension of the seasons...
- www.independent.co.uk
2013-08-20
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