July Flame is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriterLaura Veirs, released on January 12, 2010.
The title comes from a type of peach Veirs saw at a farmer's market.[1]Jim James of American rock bandMy Morning Jacket contributesfalsetto harmonies on several tracks, including "Carol Kaye" which is a tribute to the so namedbass guitarist.[1]
Reviews ofJuly Flame were favorable.The Independent called it an "obliquely beautiful record, as they tend to be. Poetic and simple".[4]The New York Times said it is "full of layered folk and indie-rock bucolia and plain-spoken but stretchy-thinking language" and "there are some great, seemingly unforced, séancelike moments here".[5]The Guardian praised the album as "so extravagantly beautiful that it will send you scurrying back to its predecessors".[6]Entertainment Weekly wrote that the album "sends us on hikes through dreamy landscapes evoked by her uniquely tangy voice, casting minimal instrumentation in glistening arrangements to captivate the melancholy imagination."[7]Paste proclaimed that the album is Veirs' "finest work", and said "It's hard to imagine a better soundtrack to the chilly months than this collection of heady, steady, pensive songs".[8]
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