Laura Veirs - "Pulse"
Photo by Shelby Brakken Laura Veirs has long had one of the most interesting and compelling takes on the folk and indie rock genres out there. Her latest single, "Pulse," is a unique mixture of singer-songwriter and a more experimental style. It starts out in the vein of 90's lo-fi folk-ish music, and it slowly gets a little more jammy as it goes on. By jammy, I mean less jam band and more like late period Sonic Youth. There is an interesting horn that comes in before it's replaced by noise rock goes jam band guitar. It's this wonderfully odd melding of the mainstream and the experimental that has made us such big Laura Veirs fans for a while now. "Pulse" is a great direction for her sound to wander in, and we're looking forward to hearing more. Laura Veirs says of her latest single: “This song is about feeling the pulse of being alive—trusting that something good is still moving toward us, even in the middle of chaos and suffering. It’s the most son...