The Funk: Laura Veirs

Posted by Dan April 19th, 2007 at 02:08pm In The Funk

I don’t really have anything to say about television right now — but there is a lot of fun music coming out these days. So let’s discuss.

Last night I bought me a copy of Laura Veirs’ new record Saltbreakers. I’ve just started getting into it, but I can tell it’s a winner already. She’s got an unusual vocal style — sort of casual and flatly delivered — but I really like it. It’s far from syrupy or affected.

Her latest album was Year of Meteors, which was sort of a cosmic, electronically-inflected folk outing. From what I can tell so far, Saltbreakers is a bit more diverse but has a similary mellow feel.

She’s also a really good songwriter and talks about science a lot. Veirs was a former geology student.

Here’s the video for Cast a Hook:

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