July Flame
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| Studio album by Laura Veirs | ||||
| Released | January 12, 2010 | |||
| Genre | Folk, indie rock, Chamber folk | |||
| Length | 43:58 | |||
| Label | Raven Marching Band Records/Bella Union | |||
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| Allmusic |    |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.5/10.0) |
July Flame is American singer-songwriter Laura Veirs' seventh studio album, released on January 12, 2010.
The title comes from a type of peach Veirs saw at a farmer's market.Jim James of American rock band My Morning Jacket contributes falsetto harmonies on several tracks, including "Carol Kaye" which is a tribute to the so named bass guitarist.
Reviews of July Flame have been favorable. The Independent calls it an "obliquely beautiful record, as they tend to be. Poetic and simple". The New York Times says it is "full of layered folk and indie-rock bucolia and plain-spoken but stretchy-thinking language" and "there are some great, seemingly unforced, séancelike moments here".The Guardian praises the album as "so extravagantly beautiful that it will send you scurrying back to its predecessors".Entertainment Weekly writes that the album "sends us on hikes through dreamy landscapes evoked by her uniquely tangy voice, casting minimal instrumentation in glistening arrangements to captivate the melancholy imagination."Paste Magazine proclaims that the album is Veirs' "finest work", and says "It's hard to imagine a better soundtrack to the chilly months than this collection of heady, steady, pensive songs".
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