Vera Sola / Peacemaker
| Album: | Peacemaker | Collection: | A-File | |
| Artist: | Vera Sola | Added: | Oct 2024 | |
| Label: | City Slang | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2024-11-18 | Pull Date: | 2025-02-17 |
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| Week Ending: | Jan 19 | Jan 12 | Jan 5 | Dec 29 | Dec 22 | Dec 15 | Dec 8 | Dec 1 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 24, 2025: | KZSU Time Traveler
The Line |
4. | Dec 27, 2024: | KZSU Time Traveler
Bad Idea |
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| 2. | Jan 09, 2025: | Comes to Mind
Bad Idea |
5. | Dec 20, 2024: | KZSU Time Traveler
Bad Idea |
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| 3. | Jan 03, 2025: | KZSU Time Traveler
Bad Idea |
6. | Dec 14, 2024: | Music Casserole
Bird House |
Album Review
Be Sharp
Reviewed 2024-11-04
Reviewed 2024-11-04
ALTERNATIVE; INDIE FOLK; FEMALE SINGER-SONGWRITER
Vera Sola (real name is Danielle Aykroyd) is a multi-instrumentalist, poet, songwriter, singer, and producer. This is her second full-length album (following a 2018 debut). Her voice is a smoky, muscular alto. (I thought of Lana Del Rey; you may agree or not.) The songs here are odd, atmospheric, sometimes gothic. Instrumentation is (variously) acoustic or electric guitars, steel guitar, bass, drums. synth, and occasional strings.
FCC in track 5
1 * Mid-tempo. Cali forests on fire; we didn’t heed warning. acoustic gtr, bass, horns (2:59)
2 * Fast. Departures & potential returns. fuzzy electric guitar, firm drumming (3:53)
3 * Slow. Ambiguous feelings (“I love you; I’m lying; Am I?”) acoustic gtr, tomtoms (5:27)
4 * Mid-fast. Odd imagery. Multiple elec guitars, trumpet. Intriguing syncopation. (3:30)
5 FCC (several). Mid-tempo. Pretty melody, 6/8 dance. Multiple sexual references (4:43)
6 Very slow. Patsy Cline style heartache. Acoustic & pedal steel guitars (2:35)
7 Slow. Somber & haunting. Acoustic guitar & bass, strings (4:07)
8 VERY slow. The many things one’s hands can do. Odd, spooky feeling (3:51)
9 Slow. A dreamy recollection of seeing someone after a long time (4:43)
10 ** Mid-fast. Good rocking song, strange lyric; elec guitar & bass, drums. Urgent (4:51)
11 ** Slow to mid. Horribly ironic twist on St Francis’s “peace prayer.” Acoustic (3:46)
Vera Sola (real name is Danielle Aykroyd) is a multi-instrumentalist, poet, songwriter, singer, and producer. This is her second full-length album (following a 2018 debut). Her voice is a smoky, muscular alto. (I thought of Lana Del Rey; you may agree or not.) The songs here are odd, atmospheric, sometimes gothic. Instrumentation is (variously) acoustic or electric guitars, steel guitar, bass, drums. synth, and occasional strings.
FCC in track 5
1 * Mid-tempo. Cali forests on fire; we didn’t heed warning. acoustic gtr, bass, horns (2:59)
2 * Fast. Departures & potential returns. fuzzy electric guitar, firm drumming (3:53)
3 * Slow. Ambiguous feelings (“I love you; I’m lying; Am I?”) acoustic gtr, tomtoms (5:27)
4 * Mid-fast. Odd imagery. Multiple elec guitars, trumpet. Intriguing syncopation. (3:30)
5 FCC (several). Mid-tempo. Pretty melody, 6/8 dance. Multiple sexual references (4:43)
6 Very slow. Patsy Cline style heartache. Acoustic & pedal steel guitars (2:35)
7 Slow. Somber & haunting. Acoustic guitar & bass, strings (4:07)
8 VERY slow. The many things one’s hands can do. Odd, spooky feeling (3:51)
9 Slow. A dreamy recollection of seeing someone after a long time (4:43)
10 ** Mid-fast. Good rocking song, strange lyric; elec guitar & bass, drums. Urgent (4:51)
11 ** Slow to mid. Horribly ironic twist on St Francis’s “peace prayer.” Acoustic (3:46)
Track Listing
| 1. | Bad Idea (2:59) | 7. | Bird House (4:07) | |||
| 2. | The Line (3:53) | 8. | Hands (3:51) | |||
| 3. | I'm Lying (5:27) | 9. | Is That You? (4:43) | |||
| 4. | Get Wise (3:30) | 10. | Blood Bond (4:51) | |||
| 5. | Desire Path (4:43) | 11. | Instrument of War (3:46) | |||
| 6. | Waiting (2:35) | . |