Talk:July Flame

Reviews

For later..

• “It’s full of texture… You almost want to run your hands across it and feel the nicks in the wood grain, or order it off the appetizer menu in your town’s new warehouse-district restaurant run by a ruddy-faced genius with a beard. It’s full of layered folk and indie-rock bucolia and plain-spoken but stretchy-thinking language, wherein everyday energies or objects transubstantiate into other, metaphorically richer ones. There are some great, seemingly unforced, séancelike moments here…” - The New York Times [1]

• "It is, in no uncertain terms, Veirs' best work—a recording that travels effortlessly on the groundwork laid out by her six previous albums." Read the in depth profile from The Portland Mercury [2]

• "July Flame takes its title from a type of peach, and its content is just as sweet and irresistible" - Rolling Stone [3]

• "This is an obliquely beautiful record, as they tend to be. Poetic and simple." - The Independent [4]

•"I struggled with [the] songwriting more than I used to,” says Laura Veirs, from Colorado, of her seventh album, yet it sits together like an unbroken rhapsody." - The London Times [5]

• "July Flame is her seventh, and parts of it are so extravagantly beautiful that it will send you scurrying back to its predecessors, particularly 2004's Carbon Glacier. Recorded at home with new partner and long-time producer Tucker Martine, it has such an unassuming, homespun quality that you're constantly surprised by how expansive and richly textured its songs are." - The Guardian [6]

--Omarcheeseboro (talk) 14:40, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Here's some more, don't have the links yet. Hope to incorporate these in the article soon, if someone beats me to it, go ahead

- The Oxford American

“Warm yourself in midwinter with Laura Veirs’ “July Flame,” a summery song inspired by a succulent peach variety. It’s the title track of her idiosyncratic, captivating album by the same name.”

- UTNE Reader

“Were you the first to tell your friends about Neko Case’s Middle Cyclone in 2009? Female-singer-songwriter fan, your work is not yet done! The extraordinary Laura Veirs — a punk rocker–turned-underrated pop folkie — should inspire fits of similar evangelistic passion. Always in touch with the natural world, Veirs’ new album July Flame sends us on hikes through dreamy landscapes evoked by her uniquely tangy voice, casting minimal instrumentation in glistening arrangements to captivate the melancholy imagination. If sofa-size paintings of the Pacific Northwest could sing, they’d sound like this. A-

- Entertainment Weekly

“The magnificent Portland songwriter delves into the mystic, crafting spare, entrancing pop songs as informed by folk music as they are indie rock. July Flame takes its title from a type of peach, and its content is just as sweet and irresistible.”

– Filter (FOUR STARS)

“It’s hard to imagine a better soundtrack to the chilly months than this collection of heady, steady, pensive songs. Warmer and rootsier than her earlier work… July Flame is carefully composed, ever-deepening, glinting and glowing in new ways each time it’s played; it’s Veirs’ finest work.”

– Paste (8.5)

“This is a vivid song cycle that’s part-ecstasy, part-sadness, and unfailingly lovely.”

--Omarcheeseboro (talk) 14:51, 12 January 2010 (UTC)