Warp and Weft

Laura Veirs - Warp and Weft
Critic Score
Based on 20 reviews
2013 Ratings: #175 / 1115
User Score
Based on 26 ratings
Liked by 2 people
August 19, 2013 / Release Date
LP / Format
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CRITIC REVIEWS

85
The Line of Best Fit

This is a creative and varied set of songs that spiral high and swoop low, sometimes both at once – and there isn’t a weak link amongst them. 

80
The 405

As she challenges our preconceptions of the genre, she also crafts a sublime LP, full of the ups and downs of life and parenthood, accompanied by beautiful melodies.

80
PopMatters

Warp and Weft is no hippie-dippy New Age paean to the goddess within, but more of a hard-edged look at life that doesn’t ignore nonphysical reality.

80
musicOMH

This is possibly her most satisfying album to date; it is, at times, quite spellbinding.

78
Paste

Displaying more of her raucous side, Warp and Weft is filled with tracks that easily find themselves among the best of her impressive catalog and manage to exceed expectations.

74
Pitchfork

Warp and Weft conjures a low, angular desert with percussion like rattlesnakes, guitars like scorpion stings, and pedal steels and string bends like reeling stars, all reverberating into shrouded gray distances. Veirs' voice runs through as clear and even as moonlight.

70
NME

It all amounts to a rich, evocative expression of a mother’s optimism and anxieties.

70
AllMusic

Laura Veirs returns to her electric guitar on Warp & Weft and delivers a dozen new songs that wind through skillfully textured, slightly psychedelicized rock, pop, and Americana, covering everything from the fears and joys of motherhood ... to disillusionment to homages to heroes to gratitude and spiritual awareness. 

70
Drowned in Sound

The instrumentation, songwriting and melody-making effortlessly comes together thanks to the clever layering and lovingly crafted placement of each and every sound.

50
DIY

A lot of the time 'Warp & Weft' is just very slow, and whilst there are a couple of earworms to be turned up here and there, it's mostly pretty stodgy

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Track List

  1. Sun Song
  2. America
  3. Finster Saw the Angels
  4. Dorothy of the Island
  5. Shape Shifter 
  6. Ghosts of Louisville
  7. Say Darlin' Say
  8. That Alice
  9. Ikaria 
  10. Sadako Folding Cranes 
  11. Ten Bridges
  12. White Cherry

Year End Lists

#56/musicOMH
#79/Rough Trade
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Added on: August 13, 2013