Laura Veirs


As a geology student, I'd like to think I can appreciate Laura Veirs' songs on some special, secret-handshake level, for she was (is?) a geologist as well. Fortunately, that's not at all true; her songs resonate simply because they're beautiful. It's like good literature, it has universal appeal because it's human. And while Veirs uses wonderfully specific geologic metaphors, they're just that - metaphors. It doesn't take an academic to understand and appreciate lines about being "slain by your olivine eyes" or waiting on the "caldera's edge." The inevitable earthiness of Veirs' songs betray an honesty akin to being exposed, in a very natural sense.

From Year of Meteors (buy):

Laura Veirs - Magnetized

Laura Veirs - Spelunking

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Woohoo! The Rich Girls are Weeping has some very special cuts from The Elected's EP that shipped with Sun, Sun, Sun preorders.

Goodbye, Grandaddy. You've been good to us!

From the Signal to Snow Ratio EP:

Grandaddy - Protected From the Rain

gorgeous.

Enjoy!