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The American/Canadian poet, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Vera Sola is hard to pin down. She’s been alternately cast as the ‘lost love child of Leonard Cohen and Nancy Sinatra,’ ‘Nick Cave in the role of Staggerlee,’ ‘Patsy Cline fronting a minimalist Warpaint’ and ‘PJ Harvey at her most irate, teeth-bared.’  But none of that really paints the full picture. With a twisted, break-neck finger-picking style, haunting vibrato and ability to move her voice from a guttural howl to a whisper-soft stutter, she shatters genre and seems to bend time.

Her albums have been met with widespread praise, but Vera is still best known for her hypnotic stage presence. In the words of Loud and Quiet magazine, she’s like “a Westworld android gone rogue; a living anachronism, capable of both run-of-the-mill stage banter and of occupying the characters of her songs with full force, moving as if possessed by them as she performs.”

Sophomore album “Peacemaker” is out now on City Slang Records.

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“A unique talent” – 9/10 The Line of Best Fit

“Her formerly black and white world is now in blazing Technicolor” – ★★★★ Mojo

“Vera Sola twists the singer-songwriter rulebook in fascinating directions” – DIY

“Deeply atmospheric American gothic” – ★★★★ The Observer

“She’s been compared to Nancy Sinatra but that only gives a clue to part of Vera Sola’s considerable talents” – ★★★★ The Sun

“It is cinematic, dramatic and wholly addictive. Sola has crafted an album that deserves to be huge, proving herself to be an essential voice in the current musical landscape” – ★★★★ Far Out Magazine