Video: Laura Gibson (LIVE from the Wreckage #7)

"Spirited" by Laura Gibson in the "Live from the Wreckage" series ... and oh yeah, she's got a new album out this week called Beasts of Seasons on Portland label HUSH Records . The album features a bevy of guest singers and musicians from the Portland area, among them fellow troubadour Laura Viers and Danny Seim of Menomena and Lackthereof. NPR gave the record top billing last week with a week long listening session calling it "nothing short of a masterpiece," and in large part I agree. Both her voice and the instrumentation [...]

• Laura Gibson - Spirited

Episode number seven of the fantastic Razing Mississippi series finds Laura Gibson at the wheel of a catepillar um... um... machine? Seriously, what the hell does that thing do? I'm a limp-wristed word pansy, so my knowledge of macho construction equipment is not too sharp. Anyone? But what I do know about is the gorgeous music of Ms. Gibson--the flower growing through the cracks of the industrial cinderblock wasteland that will someday soon house the new Mississippi Studios venue--who debuts a new song, "Spirited," in her performance here.