It’s an album full of questions, full of seeking, and of quietly accepting solitude until some of the answers begin to become clear. It’s an album that flicks a match or lights a candle in the dark, and holds onto the hope that the light brings, for as long as it remains

On "No Masters", romantic contentment mixes with the 19th-century feminist-inspired disavowal of internal male subjugation in favour of a manifesto of self-sufficiency, emphasised by electric guita. Print edition only

By closing her artistic process off to the people and places around her, Laura Veirs has fully opened herself up to love and, hopefully, creative collaboration once again

There might be deliberate ambient intrusions and undeleted imperfections, but there is something very intentional going on here, the sense they ae made by somebody carving out space in the jostle of everyday life, consciously taking the time to step away and check in with yourself. Print edition only

Temple Songs is quietly confident and infused with the strong poetic sense that marks all of Veirs' best work. That she no longer employs a producer to pull it all together is merely a sign of her growth and maturation as an artist

'Temple Songs’ is Laura Veirs’ first LP to be entirely self-recorded and self-produced

Recorded produced and performed entirely on her own, this gorgeously crafted album serves as a soothing balm in turbulent times

Made in a backyard studio, the singer-songwriter’s latest record plays like a respite from chaos, filled with lilting melodies and hopeful reflections.