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Margaret Sands 2:57 02. Everybody Needs You 2:55 03. Seven Falls 4:04 04. Mountains Of The Moon 4:16 05. Watch Fire 2:36 06. Heavy Petals 2:39 07. The Lookout 2:04 08. The Meadow 2:42 09. The Canyon 3:42 10. Lightning Rod 3:20 11. When It Grows Darkest 4:31 12. Zozobra 2:45 ┌────────┐ ────┤ Notes ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── └────────┘ Colorado-born singer/songwriter Laura Veirs has forged a career singing personal songs of romantic intoxication, everyday vignettes, and occasional social commentary that are often heavy on introspection and intense character scrutiny. Her vocals and melodies rapidly shift and veer, up and down her wide vocal range. Veirs made her debut in 1999, releasing a self-titled CD, recorded live and featuring just her and guitar. Heading to a proper studio for her next release, "The Triumphs & Travails Of Orphan Mae", it too was self-released (though it eventually saw greater distribution after British label Bella Union reissued it in 2005). Taking a cue from her excellent 2016 collaboration with Neko Case and k.d. lang, "The Lookout", Veirs' tenth studio long-player is a sonically breezy yet lyrically bold amalgam of imagery-rich Pacific Northwest Americana, reverb-laden indie pop, and intimate electronics-tinged folk. It's also her most compelling set of material to date, effectively pairing her understated vocals with arrangements that are as pillowy and warm as they are spilling over with interesting ideas. Too often tagged with words like dependable and steadfast, Veirs may not be the most commanding presence, but she more than held her own against the sizable personalities of Case and lang, and she imbues "The Lookout" with that same quiet confidence, deftly weaving richly detailed, forward-thinking confections out of confessional singer/songwriter tropes. Produced by husband Tucker Martine (First Aid Kit, She & Him), the 12-track set is both expansive and profoundly intimate, with Veirs focusing her attention on the precarious space that human beings occupy socially and physically in an increasingly polarized and digitized world. My Morning Jacket's Jim James lends his voice to a lovely rendering of the Grateful Dead's "Mountains Of The Moon", and Veirs elicits some spirited shouts from her children and their cousin on the spacy campfire jam "Lightning Rod". "Everybody Needs You", "When It Grows Darkest" and "Watch Fire", the latter of which features a guest vocal by Sufjan Stevens, resonant on both a sonic level - Martine maintains an almost liquid atmosphere throughout - and an emotional one, as Veirs tends to choose empathy over irony, anger, or sarcasm, while staring down existential dread. ┌────────┐ ────┤ Salute ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── └────────┘ BERC r35 GCP FWYH NuHS GRAVEWISH JCE KLV