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Laura Veirs - My Echo (2020)

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Laura Veirs - My Echo (2020)

Laura Veirs - My Echo (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 182 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 82 Mb | 00:33:58
Indie Folk, Chamber Pop, Female Vocal | Label: Bella Union

Laura Veirs releases her eleventh solo album My Echo via Bella Union. The album features guest appearances from Jim James, Bill Frisell, Karl Blau, Matt Ward and others.

“My Echo is my 11th solo album. It’s my ‘my songs knew I was getting divorced before I did’ album. My conscious mind was trying as hard as I could to keep my family together but my subconscious mind was working on the difficult struggles in my marital life. I was part of a “Secret Poetry Group” that met and wrote poems monthly for a year during the writing of this record. Many of my poems turned into songs for this album. By the time the album was being mixed last fall, my ex-husband / producer Tucker Martine and I had decided to go our separate ways. We were a great musical team for many years but we struggled to be compatible in our marriage and family life and that struggle is reflected in this album. In this new batch of songs I imagine escaping from some sort of prison or cage. Advancing age, the confines of domesticity, our oppressive government and the threat of the apocalypse permeate these songs. In these songs my heart craves certainty and permanence but none is to be found. It’s an album about disintegration. It reveals my artist’s intuition at work. Although these songs were written before quarantine they are strangely relevant to times in which we find ourselves currently. You will find me staring at the walls (Turquoise Walls). You will find me feeling grateful to be alive (Memaloose Island). You will find me accepting the ephemeral nature of life (Vapor Trails and All the Things). You will find me searching for personal freedom while feeling trapped (Freedom Feeling). You will find me trying to accept that sometimes the best thing to do is to sit still and do nothing at all (Another Space and Time). Produced by Tucker Martine in the summer and fall of 2019 in Portland, OR. Includes appearances from Jim James, Bill Frisell, Karl Blau, Matt Ward.

AllMusic Review by Mark Deming
Laura Veirs is far from the first singer/songwriter to make an album informed by the breakup of a romantic relationship. However, she's one of the few to make a breakup album produced by the person who inspired it. Veirs and noted indie producer Tucker Martine had been married for 19 years when they announced they were divorcing in November 2019, and 2020's My Echo was recorded with Martine at the controls (as he had done with most of her albums), created as their marriage was at the point of collapse. The non-album single "I Was a Fool," which she debuted on Valentine's Day 2020, was a more blunt and emotionally naked musical response to the end of her marriage; My Echo was recorded before "I Was a Fool" but released eight months afterwards, and it's clear that that song's discontent was real and present as this material came together, even if it was less pointed. The opening song, "Freedom Feeling," begins with the words "I don't know where I am going, but I've got you by my side"; however, as the tune plays out, those words feel ominous rather than comforting, the sound of someone searching for a freedom they don't honestly feel. Elsewhere, "Turquoise Walls" finds her wrestling with the fear she's been betrayed, "Burn Too Bright" documents a moment where the distance between them becomes all too obvious in the studio, "Brick Layer" obsesses on the weaknesses that compromise her carefully constructed veneer of strength, and "All the Things" is a litany of the decay and collapse of things of her control. My Echo is all about the emotions that begin to break through the surface when love turns bad, and the soft emotional reserve of Veirs' voice articulates the unease in her heart and soul with gestures that are subtle and telling at once; when she sings "Come and rest awhile in my song/Nothing's wrong" in "I Sing to the Tall Man," she makes it obvious how false that is without tipping her hand with histrionics. And if Veirs and Martine were falling out as they made this, he gave her a lovely going-away present with My Echo, which is masterful in the ghostly beauty of its arrangements and spectral soundscapes. The album creates beauty out of fear and uncertainty, and it's among Laura Veirs' most personal and satisfying works to date.
Tracklist:
1. Freedom Feeling (03:20)
2. Another Space and Time (04:41)
3. Turquoise Walls (02:39)
4. Memaloose Island (03:35)
5. End Times (03:07)
6. Burn Too Bright (03:00)
7. Brick Layer (02:31)
8. All The Things (03:28)
9. I Sing To The Tall Man (03:10)
10. Vapor Trails (04:32)

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Laura Veirs / My Echo

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Exact Audio Copy V1.3 from 2. September 2016

EAC extraction logfile from 3. December 2020, 10:23

Laura Veirs / My Echo

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