2026 Charity Shop Purchases #13 - Laura Veirs - Year of Meteors
The Kinder Handl charity shop on Glasgow's Battlefield Road has literally hundreds of CDs for sale. The problem is that they are pretty much all terrible. Nevertheless I sifted through then and just when I was about to give up I came away with Year of Meteors the 5th studio album by Portland, Oregon singer/songwriter Laura Veirs on the Nonesuch label.
I was very nearly put off as she has a more than passing resemblance to the Greens MSP Lorna Slater
It joins her third album 2003's Troubled by the Fire which is somewhat inexplicably housed in the Americana section when it is obviously Singer/Songwriter. You just can't get the staff.
She was previously married to the go to producer Tucker Martine.
It scores 80/100 on the Metacritic Aggregator. A pound well spent.
"Greens MSP Lorna Slater" - have they ever been seen in the same place at the same time? ANd is Ms Slater any relation to the people of the clothing emporium Slaters?
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DeleteI have tried to get into Ms Veirs' work a few times but never yet managed it.
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