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Folk, ghost folk, pop, United States.

Een hele poos geleden heeft iemand eens dit album getipt. Ik ben benieuwd of ze zich dat kan herinneren, maar hier is het. 

Vera Sola grew up between New York City and a farm in Canada, raised by artists, writers and seekers. As a child she was surrounded by music—training early on as a dancer, learning to play piano, and later teaching herself guitar and bass. Writing too was always a passion. Considering she holds a degree in Literature from Harvard, it’s fitting that Vera Sola’s songs are arranged to give words a well-earned place at their center.

The poet, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist is hard to pin down. Attempts to define her music have had her cast as the ‘lost love child of Leonard Cohen and Nancy Sinatra,’ ‘Nick Cave in the role of Staggolee,’ ‘a mordant Patsy Cline,’ ‘PJ Harvey at her most irate, teeth-bared.’

But its near impossible to find a truly fitting comparison. Described as ‘a living anachronism’, Vera Sola makes timeless, time-bending sound. In the words of the Sunday Times Culture, she’s ‘an utterly singular talent’.

All of this was a long time coming. Despite a background in poetry, a successful career as a stage and voice actor, years of touring in Elvis Perkins’ band, and a collection of hundreds of secret songs, it wasn’t until early 2017 that she began experimenting with the idea of recording her own material.

Only then, when a series of life-altering events reframed her relationship to her music, did she book time at a studio in St. Louis and lock herself inside.

From there came her debut album ‘Shades’—written, performed, and produced entirely alone. Instruments she’d never before touched, hand-made percussion, chains and breaking glass, were arranged meticulously around multi-part harmonies, and brought to the fore a newly discovered vocal skill— her otherworldly vibrato.

The result is a record both complex and sparse, lyrics full of sorrow yet arch and wry. Sincere but sardonic, self-aware and scathing. Poems and stories set to music. Songs of the present that conjure the past.


“An utterly singular talent” Sunday Times, Breaking Act

“Veering from the personal to the profound, Shades is a darkly poetic confrontation of modern turmoil…Such is the virtuosity and accomplishment of her playing...It’s hard to believe it is the work of just one person.” --The Line of Best Fit 9/10

“An absolute masterpiece” --6/6 and No.2 Album of the Year - Magic RPM

“Hauntingly magnificent debut” --Q Magazine

“[what] Quentin Tarantino soundtracks are made for.” --Rolling Stone Magazine

"Fresh and fierce, bitter and bewitching." --Mojo

Tracks:
01 - Virgil's Flowers
02 - The Colony
03 - Small Minds
04 - Circles
05 - For
06 - Black Rhino Enterprises
07 - Loving, Loving
08 - The Cage
09 - By Mothlight
10 - New Nights

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBMe5DdAsH0