Laura Veirs/Carbon Glacier

I’m somehow a fan of folk music, I think. It simply doesn’t make any sense to deny that any further. As more sound somebody is able to produce with as few instruments as possible, as more I’m getting catched by it. In 2009 I found Laura Veirs and her album Carbon Glacier. Not only by her title this album fits into the list of my so called winter albums which always trigger a longing for winter, snow and calm evenings in me.

But this is something that you only get later on in the album. For just getting you warm the album doesn’t start slowing - I guess you’d fall asleep otherwise and miss the interesting bits later on.

Like Shadow Blues for example. I’m not even sure that it’s a blues at all. But the deepness and melancholic mood that fills the song is quite intimidating. It’s not gonna make you cry. But your room, your day, will somehow become a bit darker for four minutes and twenty seconds.

This album is a kind of minimalistic. You’ll not get overwhelmed but too much sound, too much going on in the background. It’s not necessarily for dancing either. But - nonetheless - it’s a very, very good album which still shows up on my playlist again. And again. And again.

And again.

And again.

Links: Official Website