My Echo
Laura Veirs’ 11th solo album was conceived under uniquely difficult circumstances. While putting the finishing touches on the ruminative *My Echo*, the Portland singer-songwriter separated from ex-husband Tucker Martine, who also produced the album’s ten songs. The golden-hued folk pop sounds introspective as a result, from the propulsive and beat-driven “Turquoise Walls” to the hushed reveries of closing track “Vapor Trails.” But this album sounds far from solitary: My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, M. Ward, Karl Blau, and Bill Frisell all lend their considerable talents to this document of lost love and moving forward from your past.
My Echo is Laura Veirs' eleventh studio album, and includes appearances and features from Jim James, Bill Frisell, Karl Blau, Matt Ward and others. Laura says: "My Echo is “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." Track listing 1. Freedom Feeling 2. Another Space and Time 3. Turquoise Walls 4. Memaloose Island 5. End Times 6. Burn Too Bright 7. Brick Layer8. All the Things 9. I Sing to the Tall Man 10. Vapor Trails
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