Laura Veirs Announces New Album 'Temple Songs' With First Single Flying Into Darkness
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Shelby Brakken
Laura Veirs has announced a new album.
The Portland, Oregon-based artist will release 'Temple Songs' through her Raven Marching Band Records label on August 14, following 2023's 'Phone Orphans' and two live records, 'Laura Veirs and Her Band (Live In Brooklyn)' and 'Laura Veirs and the Choir Who Couldn't Say (Live In Angouleme)', released in 2024 and 2025, respectively.
Produced and recorded herself with two microphones and a laptop in her newly built backyard studio, the project also marks the singer-songwriter's first album she has written, arranged and performed entirely on her own, playing guitar, bass, drums, tambourine, percussion, and vocals, with the only outside contribution coming from a secret special guest on saxophone.
"I needed to make this album to connect more deeply with my taste, aesthetics, and confidence. I wrestled with a lot of doubt,” Veirs said. "But there were many happy accidents and eventually I found a flow—seeing the studio again, for the first time since my 20s, as a private place for exploration."
Alongside the announcement, the singer-songwriter has shared the album's lead single, Flying Into Darkness, a melodic acoustic folk-pop song that blends bright and darker passages, beginning off light and hopeful but with a feeling of melancholy running through it.
Veirs explained: “This song comes from a feeling of being existentially unmoored in a dark, uncertain moment. I kept circling the same questions: how do I stay grounded? How do I feel like I’m doing some real good, nudging things–even slightly–in a better direction?
Head below to view the song's video, which Veirs shot during a tour in France. "At its core, the song wrestles with restlessness–how hard it is to find true rest when the world keeps us in a constant state of unease. There’s also a thread of ‘No Masters’ running through it, which shows up across the album. I’m reaching for a world shaped more by freedom and love than by greed and fear, and all the ways those forces show up in daily life: hollow work, vast inequality, systems that feel too big to push against, and the steady backdrop of violence and conflict."
Veirs will tour the UK and Ireland in September, followed by US dates in the fall, with Karl Blau supporting on all dates. Tickets are on sale now.
'Temple Songs' tracklist:
1. Arc Still Bends
2. Golden Seams
3. Pulse
4. Feeling Returns
5. Flying Into Darkness
6. Colors Sing
7. Out From Undercover~
8. New Life Over There
9. No Masters
10. River’s Song
11. Sunlight and Doom
Laura Veirs Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Thu September 10 2026 - CAMBRIDGE Storey's Field Centre
Fri September 11 2026 - SHEFFIELD Upper Chapel
Sat September 12 2026 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Cluny 2
Sun September 13 2026 - GLASGOW St Lukes
Mon September 14 2026 - MANCHESTER Halle at St Michaels
Wed September 16 2026 - LONDON EartH (Theatre)
Thu September 17 2026 - SOUTHAMPTON Papillon
Fri September 18 2026 - BRISTOL Bristol Strange Brew
Sat September 19 2026 - BIRMINGHAM Kitchen Garden
Sun September 20 2026 - NOTTINGHAM Old Cold Store
Tue September 22 2026 - GALWAY Monroes
Wed September 23 2026 - DUBLIN Whelans
Thu September 24 2026 - BELFAST Black Box
Fri September 25 2026 - KILKENNY Cleeres Bar and Theatre
Thu October 08 2026 - VIENNA Virginia - Jammin Java (USA)
Fri October 09 2026 - PHILADELPHIA Pennsylvania - Nikki Lopez (USA)
Sat October 10 2026 - NEW YORK New York - Cafe Wha (USA)
Sun October 11 2026 - CAMBRIDGE Massachusetts - Club Passim (USA)
Tue October 13 2026 - CLEVELAND Ohio - Beachland Tavern (USA)
Wed October 14 2026 - COLUMBUS Ohio - Natalies Grandview (USA)
Thu October 15 2026 - EVANSTON Illinois - SPACE (USA)
Fri October 16 2026 - FORT ATKINSON Wisconsin - Cafe Carpe (USA)
Sat October 17 2026 - MINNEAPOLIS Minnesota - Cedar Cultural Center (USA)
Mon October 19 2026 - LOS ANGELES California - Peppermint Club (USA)
Tue October 20 2026 - SAN FRANCISCO California - Cafe Du Nord (USA)
Thu October 22 2026 - TROUT LAKE Washington - Trout Lake Hall (USA)
Fri October 23 2026 - VASHON Washington - Open Space For Arts & Community (USA)
Sat October 24 2026 - PORTLAND Oregon - Polaris Hall (USA)
Sun October 25 2026 - SEATTLE Washington - Tractor Tavern (USA)
Mon October 26 2026 - MOUNT VERNON Washington - Lincoln Theatre (USA)
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