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Track Listings
| 1. Ether Sings |
| 2. Icebound Stream |
| 3. Rapture |
| 4. Lonely Angel Dust |
| 5. The Cloud Room |
| 6. Wind Is Blowing Stars |
| 7. Shadow Blues |
| 8. Anne Bonny Rag |
| 9. Snow Camping |
| 10. Chimney Sweeping Man |
| 11. Salvage A Smile |
| 12. Blackened Anchor |
| 13. Riptide |
In some quarters, Carbon Glacier has been hailed as Laura Veirs' first masterpiece. While it's far from that, it is a major step forward from her 2003 offering Troubled by the Fire. Where that album was a jumpy affair, leaping inconsistently from ballads to country to rootsy folk, Carbon Glacier is held together by the frosty mood and vision suggested by its title. Now resident in Seattle, Veirs uses images of the Washington winter and the chilly depths of Puget Sound and the north Pacific to relate her feelings of hope and fear, both as an artist and a human. Thus "Rapture", "Lonely Angel Dust" and especially "Icebound Stream", with its deliberately jerky, child-like vocal rhythms, conjure atmospheres that are icy, occasionally fraught but never less than moving.
Backed by acoustic guitars, simple keyboards and a small string section, Veirs moves into darker territory with "Shadow Song" (recalling the American gothic of Nick Cave) and the instrumental "Anne Bonny Rag" is almost fun. But for the most part, Carbon Glacier keeps its cool. Almost a concept album, it sees Veirs wondering how to enjoy a full and fruitful life in the midst of nature's relentless and unforgiving cycles. As said, it's no masterpiece, just very fine indeed. --Dominic Wills