| View Larger Image | Carbon Glacier | Audio CDby Laura Veirs
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| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Nonesuch | | Release Date: | August 24, 2004 | | Sales Rank: | 98,938th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Ether Sings
- Track 2: Icebound Stream
- Track 3: Rapture
- Track 4: Lonely Angel Dust
- Track 5: The Cloud Roam
- Track 6: Wind Is Blowing Stars
- Track 7: Shadow Blues
- Track 8: Anne Bonny Rag
- Track 9: Snow Camping
- Track 10: Chimney Sweeping Man
- Track 11: Salvage a Smile
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Album Description
On her Nonesuch debut Carbon Glacier, Laura Veirs re-imagines folk music in a bravely boundary-crossing way, employing the genre as a jumping-off point to create an intimate, affecting sound entirely her own. The Independent described it as "a benchmark by which future Americana releases will be judged." Uncut simply declared Carbon Glacier Veirs' "first masterpiece". |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 14 reviews)
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enraptured by this stellar disc by meggynewwave (fresno, ca, us)  4 Stars
March 13, 2007
This disc is so far out of the stratosphere that its follow-up, "Year of Meteors," can't reach it. "Glacier" is the soft, thawing warmth of a just-built fire after a long freeze. This disc is best served by a long closed-eye listen, and "Rapture" is the obvious highlight as Veirs' pale voice rhapsodizes and mourns the very process of her chosen career without sounding aged or jaded.
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Not what I expected by R. George (Encinitas, CA)  3 Stars
January 20, 2007
I bought this album after hearing an instrumental cut. Beautiful music. Turns out it's the only one on the album. The rest of the cuts are vocal and I'm not a fan of Veirs' vocals. In my opinion she should stick to instrumentals.
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Some kind of sweet magic... by Jen (San Diego, CA USA) 4 Stars
February 24, 2006
Her voice, the writing, the tunes, the arrangements are all pleasant but not individually mind-blowing. But there's something really uniquely wonderful about the combination. Three of the songs I don't like, so that knocks it to a four, but the rest of the CD is one that I can listen to endlessly.
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Much more than I hoped for by A. Johnson  5 Stars
October 03, 2005
I heard "Fire Snakes" on the Radio from the "Years of Meteors" album. Almost instantly new that I had to seek out this artist and see what else she had produced. Have purchased all her Albums and surprised to find so much I like from each one. Usually when an artist grabs me and I check out their other stuff, I never find anything that I like as much as the first song I heard. With Laura Veirs, I have too many favorites to list. If you hear a song from this artist that you like, you will probably be very happy with the rest of her work. At least that is what I found.
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Audible elegance by L. Fleisher (Pittsburgh, PA) 5 Stars
May 26, 2005
Carbon Glacier is one of those rare, perfect albums that drew me in at first listen - clean, intricate guitar work augmented by layers of gorgeous, emotionally evocative melody and visually potent lyrics.
Although I'm admittedly indifferent to most lyrics, unless they are flat-out brilliant or just plain embarrassing, Veirs' render me spellbound, conjuring tangible, poetic images that convey the intimacy of shared, deeply personal thoughts, but somehow manage to avoid being even remotely confessional or self-referential. Her unusual vocal phrasing makes her gently gothic Americana-tinged narratives all the more engaging.
With complex, surprising and fresh arrangements and intelligent instrumentation provided by a group of top-notch collaborators, Veirs easily transcends the trappings of the usually ho-hum "singer-songwriter" genre and emerges as an important and distinctive voice in an ever-swelling sea of musical mediocrity.
It's not every day you discover music that defies easy comparison. Thank god for artists like Laura Veirs who make us hear the world differently.
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