July Flame

{{Music ratings

| MC = 81/100{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/july-flame/laura-veirs|title=Reviews for July Flame by Laura Veirs|website=Metacritic|access-date=May 15, 2025}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web |first=J. |last=Allen |title=Review: July Flame |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1687552|pure_url=yes}} |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=2010-01-19}}

| rev2 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev2score = A–

| rev3 = The Guardian

| rev3score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jan/07/laura-veirs-july-flame-review|title=Laura Veirs: July Flame|website=The Guardian|last=Costa|first=Maddy|date=7 January 2010|access-date=15 May 2025}}

| rev4 = Mojo

| rev4score = {{rating|4|5}}Unlike some other nu-folkies, this feels organic and unforced; one reason why her albums, and this in particular, have such resonance. [Jan 2010, p.92]

| rev5 = musicOMH

| rev5score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/laura-veirs-july-flame|title=Laura Veirs – July Flame|website=musicOMH|last=Burgess|first=Andrew|date=25 January 2010|access-date=15 May 2025}}

| rev6 = Paste

| rev6score = 8.5/10

| rev7 = Pitchfork

| rev7score = 7.5/10{{cite web |first=Joe |last=Tangari |title=Review: July Flame |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13783-july-flame/ |website=Pitchfork |accessdate=2010-01-19 |archive-date=2010-01-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100120002026/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13783-july-flame/ |url-status=live }}

| rev8 = PopMatters

| rev8score = 9/10{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/122311-laura-veirs-july-flame-2496179605.html|title=Laura Veirs: July Flame|website=PopMatters|last=Harsin|first=Jayson|date=1 April 2010|access-date=15 May 2025}}

| rev9 = Q

| rev9score = {{rating|4|5}}Always an engaging songwriter with a strong mystical and elemental bent, the seamlessly flowing July Flame now adds an increased accessibility to her armoury. [Feb 2010, p. 112]

| rev10 = Uncut

| rev10score = {{rating|4|5}}This is a vivid song cycle that's part ecstasy, part-sadness--but unfailingly lovely. [Jan 2010, p.119]

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Reviews of July Flame were favorable. The Independent called it an "obliquely beautiful record, as they tend to be. Poetic and simple".{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-laura-veirs-july-flame-bella-union-1863672.html|title=Album: Laura Veirs, July Flame (Bella Union)|last=Coleman|first=Nick|date=10 January 2010|work=The Independent|accessdate=12 January 2010|location=London|archive-date=6 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606051746/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-laura-veirs-july-flame-bella-union-1863672.html|url-status=live}} 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".{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/arts/music/11choi.html|title=New CDs |last=Ratliff|first=Ben|date=10 January 2010|work=The New York Times|accessdate=12 January 2010}} The Guardian praised the album as "so extravagantly beautiful that it will send you scurrying back to its predecessors".{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jan/07/laura-veirs-july-flame-review|title=Laura Veirs: July Flame|last=Costa|first=Maddy|date=7 January 2010|work=The Guardian|accessdate=12 January 2010|location=London}} 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."{{cite news|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20334776,00.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130122151838/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20334776,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 22, 2013|title=July Flame (2010)|last=Pastorek|first=Whitney|work=Entertainment Weekly|accessdate=12 January 2010|date=7 January 2010}} 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".{{cite news|url=http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/01/laura-veirs-july-flame.html|title=Laura Veirs: July Flame|last=Maddux|first=Rachel|date=12 January 2010|work=Paste Magazine|accessdate=12 January 2010|archive-date=14 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114132337/http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/01/laura-veirs-july-flame.html|url-status=live}}

All tracks written by Laura Veirs

1. "I Can See Your Tracks" – 2:58
2. "July Flame" – 3:45
3. "Sun Is King" – 3:20
4. "Where Are You Driving?" – 2:53
5. "Life Is Good Blues" – 2:35
6. "Silo Song" – 2:39
7. "Little Deschutes" – 4:06
8. "Summer Is the Champion" – 4:25
9. "When You Give Your Heart" – 3:05
10. "Sleeper in the Valley" – 4:02
11. "Wide-Eyed, Legless" – 2:35
12. "Carol Kaye" – 3:20
13. "Make Something Good" – 4:14

• Laura Veirs – lead vocals, guitars, banjo, piano, bass guitar
• Tucker Martine – drums, percussion, piano and backing vocals (tracks 1–3, 5–6, 8, 10)
• Karl Blau – bass guitar, piano, strings, electric guitar, organ, saxophone and backing vocals (tracks 2–8, 12–13)
• Jon Neufeld – guitars and backing vocals (tracks 1–3, 5–6, 9, 10, 12)

• Chris Funk – pedal steel guitar, twelve-string guitar, autoharp and mandolin (tracks 3, 8 and 9)
• Jim James – vocals (tracks 1, 3, 6 and 12)
• Eyvind Kang – viola (tracks 2, 4, 6, 9 and 11)
• Scott Magee – bass clarinet (track 11)
• Steve Moore – piano and electric piano, lowry organ, synths, loops and bells (tracks 4, 8, 10 and 11)
• Victor Nash – vibraphone, trumpet (tracks 3 and 8)
• Nate Query – upright bass (track 11)
• Annalisa Tornfelt – backing vocals (tracks 2 and 13)
• John McDonald – backing vocals (track 2)
• Mac Martine – backing vocals (track 2)
• Sarah Dougher – backing vocals (track 2)
• Shannon Sneed – backing vocals (track 2)

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