Laura Veirs previews new album with second single "Turquoise Walls"

The new track lands after last month's lead single "Burn Too Bright" which was inspired by the late Richard Swift.

Veirs says of the new song, "This song is about me angsting in my room late at night staring at the bedroom walls that my ex and I painted turquoise. I like how the Nashville guitar and the banjo add a feeling of lightness to this song with rather dark lyrics. I wrote a bunch of versions of this song; I hit the sweet spot on version #5. This song uses only four chords throughout. Sometimes simpler is better when crafting catchy tunes!"

My Echo will follow on from Veirs' 2018 LP The Lookout, and features collaborations with Jim James, Bill Frisell, Karl Blau, Matt Ward and more.

Veirs says of her forthcoming album, "My Echo is my 11th solo album. It’s my 'my songs knew I was getting divorced before I did' album. My conscious mind was trying as hard as I could to keep my family together but my subconscious mind was working on the difficult struggles in my marital life. I was part of a "Secret Poetry Group" that met and wrote poems monthly for a year during the writing of this record. Many of my poems turned into songs for this album. By the time the album was being mixed last fall, my ex-husband/producer Tucker Martine and I had decided to go our separate ways. We were a great musical team for many years but we struggled to be compatible in our marriage and family life and that struggle is reflected in this album."

"In this new batch of songs I imagine escaping from some sort of prison or cage," Veirs continues. "Advancing age, the confines of domesticity, our oppressive government and the threat of the apocalypse permeate these songs. In these songs my heart craves certainty and permanence but none is to be found. It’s an album about disintegration. It reveals my artist’s intuition at work."