Description:	CDs on Nonesuch
	Format:	CD single
	Genre(s):	Singer-Songwriter
	Label:	Nonesuch
	Price:	£1.99
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...according to our Maggie on 16 March 2007.

Last one from the Lovely Lovely LAURA VEIRS with her new single Don't Lose Yourself on Nonesuch Records. Pretty nice single this, striking a happy balance between being commercial and keeping some individual integrity. Its quite up beat for her and bobbles along with Dont Loose Yourself chorus softly knawing into your head. I'm a big fan of her dead pan voice and everything has an intellegent honesty to it. B-sides a non album track and combines twangy country sounding guitar with a gospel choir. Its not as exciting as Carbon Glacier which was more electronic and less polished but I shall be checking out the full album with some interest.

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What their label says...

TRACKLISTING: 7” A) Don’t Lose Yourself, B) Bright Glittering Gifts (non-album track),
CD 1 Don’t Lose Yourself, 2 Bright Glittering Gifts (non-album track),

OVERVIEW: Listening to Laura Veirs is like looking up into the night sky and suddenly witnessing a meteor shower: there’s something startling and magical, both intimate and awesome, about her songs. The nature-obsessed images Veirs conjures up and the mesmerising sound she creates are as indelible as the blaze of shooting stars. ‘Don’t Lose Yourself’ is the first single from Saltbreakers, her third album release in three years. It is her most beautifully realised band-oriented disc yet. Produced by Tucker Martine (Decemberists, Built To Spill), it is by turns haunting, playful, tender and fierce, embracing everything from machine-driven beats (‘Don’t Lose Yourself’) to angelic gospel choirs (‘To The Country’) to fuzzed-out guitars and driving alt-rock rhythms (‘Phantom Mountain’). The singer-songwriter’s 2005 Nonesuch release, the aptly titled Year of Meteors, transformed Veirs’ experience of relentlessly touring Europe and the States to support her breakthrough 2004 disc Carbon Glacier into a phantasmagorical romantic journey. Andy Gill of the Independent called it ‘An absorbing, brilliant work whose grip tightens with each hearing.’ The NME described it as ‘A collection of songs poised to steal the heart of anyone with a bruised soul.’ And Mark Edwards of the Sunday Times included it in his list of best albums of the year, proclaiming, ‘Veirs’ distinctive, earthy, angular alt-folk just gets better and better’.