The Laura Veirs album: it's amazing!

1. It's a 'progression' - we love a progression.
2. The sound is more ambient, soupier, more lush and less varied than previous albums.
3. It's sort of like Bon Iver, or even Arcade Fire - but obviously completely sounds like its own thing as well.
4. Whilst we'll miss the individual little geological and geographical vignettes rendered in perfect folk splendour, it's nice to have a more cohesive work.
5. Some of the string bits are just unbelievably beautiful, without being histrionic or melodramatic.
6. This isn't out til January 2010, so it's officially the first great album of the new decade.
7. Amazing.