Year of Meteors explained

Year of Meteors
Type:	Album
Artist:	Laura Veirs
Cover:	Yearofmeteors.jpg
Released:	August 23, 2005
Recorded:	Flora, Seattle, Washington
Genre:	Folk
Length:	47:34
Label:	Nonesuch Records
Producer:	Tucker Martine
Prev Title:	Carbon Glacier
Prev Year:	2004
Next Title:	Saltbreakers
Next Year:	2007

Year of Meteors is the fifth studio album by Laura Veirs, released in 2005. On August 7, 2018, it was announced that this album, along with the rest of her releases through Nonesuch would be reissued for the first time in over ten years on both compact disc and vinyl by Veirs' own record label, Raven Marching Band.

Track listing

1. "Fire Snakes" – 4:57
2. "Galaxies" – 3:35
3. "Secret Someones" – 5:16
4. "Magnetized" – 2:37
5. "Parisian Dream" – 3:05
6. "Rialto" – 4:00
7. "Through the Glow" – 2:42
8. "Cool Water" – 2:52
9. "Spelunking" – 3:06
10. "Black Gold Blues" – 3:11
11. "Where Gravity Is Dead" – 3:40
12. "Lake Swimming" – 3:24
    • "Magnetized" (Demo version) (hidden track) – 1:39

Personnel

The Tortured Souls

• Laura Veirs – vocals, guitar, keyboards
• Steve Moore - piano, organs, keyboards
• Karl Blau - bass, electric guitar, vocals, keyboards
• Tucker Martine - drums, beats, percussion

Special guests

• Eyvind Kang - viola on tracks 1,5,10
• Keith Lowe - upright bass on tracks 1, 6