Laura Veirs (vocals, guitar) and
her backing band Saltbreakers: Tucker Martine (percussion) Steve Moore (piano, organs), Karl Blau (bass, guitar, vocals), and Eyvind Kang (viola)
Influences
the sky—stars, meteors, galaxies—and a lot of stuff from the sea: birds floating in the air or on water, eels and sea grass at the bottom of the sea.
Sounds Like
“Veirs' songs qualify as poems: careful, word-conscious, narrative, neither foggy nor overwritten, and tend to give you a take on regular life experience that you don't quite expect.”
—The New York Times
On her third Nonesuch release, Saltbreakers, singer-songwriter Laura Veirs remains tantalized by the
mysteries and marvels of the natural world, filling her work with images, both precise and poetic, of the
ocean and the stars. But she digs even deeper this time into the vagaries of human nature, transforming
the turbulence of her own life, as well as her concerns about the hair-trigger state of the world at large,
into a collection of songs distinguished as much by their emotional urgency as by their often astonishing
musical inventiveness.
Veirs recorded the album in Seattle, with band-mate Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Bill Frisell) once
again producing and mixing. Though she now calls her group Saltbreakers, it's actually comprised of her
longtime compatriots, formerly known as the Tortured Souls -- guitarist/bassist Karl Blau, keyboardist
Steve Moore and drummer Tucker Martine.
Watch the winning movies from our music video contest!
1st Place - "Phantom Mountain" by Doug Savage from Vancouver, B.C.
2nd Place - "Wrecking" by Derek Scearce from Mableton, GA.
3rd Place - "Pink Light" by Tyler Jensen from Minneapolis, MN.
4th Place - "Saltbreakers" by Eric Collins from Mahopac, NY.
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please please oh please come to oklahoma. it would mean the world... you have no idea. i know i'm going to sound like a total and utter creeper but you music has been in the background of many happenings in my life. really though, when you come, because i'm sure after you read this heartfelt and honest comment you'll definitely be on your way, i'll make you and your band a lovely dinner and afterwards maybe i could open for you? see? i've got it all planned out. geez louise, i sound so awkard. just come and play your beautiful sounds and everything will be right and so on and so fourth. it's simple really. go listen to my music please, it would mean a lot.
Hello there, Laura. Hope everything is going great!
Saltbreakers and Year of Meteors both made up the soundtrack for my trip to Spain a few weeks ago, so thank you very much for adding to the atmosphere.
I haven't had the fortune to watch you play yet but when you're next in the UK playing Manchester or Norwich I will be one of the first in line. :) X
Hi Laura - I am a BIG fan and can't wait till you come back home to P-Land so that I can see you for the very 1st time! I actually found you on one of my friend from back home's (TX) myspace page - funny how things work out sometimes. Hope your travels go well! *^_^*
you are here because you like good music. dont waste your time reading this. waste your time listening to the heli arc. you will not regret this! & thanks
Hey Laura Veirs :) Greeting from New Mexico. I love your album Year of Meteors (and your newer songs though I haven't heard a lot of them.) When are you gonna put "Gravity is dead" on your playlist :)? I love that song and want to put it on my page.
Heeeeeeey. I haven't had chance to say how awesome the Birmingham gig was. I wanted to stay and talk, but you were mobbed and I to catch a train. Bummer :-/ But, yeah, great show. Alex was awesome too. It's great that you watch each other's shows, you'd be surprised how many people don't bother to show cameraderie like that. The looping station use was cool, but when you going to have a band in the UK? I think Saltbreakers stuff needs it a little
my daughter got one of yr tatoos for her 4th birthday and she really liked it. It was over a week ago so now shes alittle sad because its beginning to fade. anyway, keep up the good work and leave the bad work for the less fortunate ones. fredrik D-3
Thnaks for accepting me as friend on here, I hope you enjoyed your tour of the UK, I really enjoyed your observations of british culture, it was a facsinating and revealling insight, bring your music back to the UK very soon, overy here in Wales we have a yearly music festival called Sesiwn Fawr which I'm sure you'd be very at home in!
