New Album Releases: Laura Veirs, The Shires, Manic Street Preachers and The Velvet Hands

It’s a theme that resonates through the 12 warm and gloriously melodic tracks here, each bursting with small detail: “No fear, no confusion, just a slither of the moon” as she sings on The Meadow, the album’s most ineffably beautiful song.

The style is country, folk, broadly Americana, Viers’s voice sometimes soft, high and soaring, at other times as ro…
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