Laura Veirs is a singer-songwriter, who grew up in Colorado and then moved to Seattle and Portland. She put out her own self-titled album Laura Veirs, recorded live and featuring just her and guitar, in 1999. She has since made five highly acclaimed records with producer Tucker Martine.
2003 saw the release of Troubled by the Fire, a full-band effort that found the artist sharing the studio with such luminaries as Bill Frisell and violist Eyvind Kang. She signed to Nonesuch Records the following year with the atmospheric follow-up Carbon Glacier. Year of Meteors followed in August of 2005.
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LIPS – EVERYTHING TO ME (Indie/Synth/Pop – New Zealand)
August 7, 2011 at 5:19 pm (UTC 1)
[...] Lips is a one-woman-band from New Zealand but now based in Brooklyn. The young woman likes to tell stories, stories about her friends and neighbors, simple stories that come to life in her songs. Lips’ naive songwriting, breezy vocals and subdued instrumentation are sometimes reminiscent of Scandinavian indie act Little Dragon or American songstress Laura Veirs. [...]