“Vera Sola’s second album might have taken four years to make, but that’s nothing for an artist whose storytelling appears to span the centuries. The descendant of “gunslingers” and “spiritualists” (and actor Dan Aykroyd, her dad), she grew up between New York and rural Canada, taking its vast landscape as source material for her troubled gothic folk songs. Just as her debut, Shades (2018), made in”
“Vera Sola's Peacemaker balances pop know-how and theatrical flair”
““I see this record as a sort of topography of memory. It’s a collection of stories stitched together with that particular dreamlike quality which allows for disparate spaces to converge into a single scarcely knowable vastness.” So says Vera Sola of her sophomore album, Peacemaker, released five years after her incredible 2018 debut, and the record is pretty well described with these words. With o”
“Vera Sola’s sophomore album feels like a long lost Western, complete with sweeping American landscapes, gun-slingers and a troubled heroine engulfed by the beauty and terror of the life she’s living. It’s a fitting atmosphere given Sola’s influences, from surrealist epics like Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain to the bold orchestra of Antonín Dvořák’s “New World Symphony.” There’s familiari”
