Laura Veirs has released new single “Arc Still Bends.” “This song wrestles with whether Martin Luther King Jr.’s idea that ‘the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice’ still holds true,” Veirs explains. The track is off the artist’s forthcoming album Temple Songs, available August 14 via Raven Marching Band Records, and follows previous singles “Pulse” and “Flying Into Darkness”.

Since the 2022 release of her last studio album Found Light, Veirs has kept her days full: building a backyard studio, getting married, blending a family with four teenagers, deepening her visual art practice, and expanding her music teaching. “I didn’t know if I would write songs again,” she says. “Turns out that period was a gathering phase. When I made the commitment to recording the album myself, the muse caught me again and it came together very quickly.” Created over three months in the fall of 2025 in Veirs’ backyard Temple of Bloom studio, her 14th solo LP marks a new level of artistic independence as the first in her decades-long career that she wrote, recorded, arranged, produced, and performed entirely on her own. Made with just two mics and a laptop in a 10’ x 14′ room.

Veirs embraced the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi throughout the process, choosing not to pitch-correct vocals or edit out rough edges. “I wanted to make something that sounds as organic and human as possible,” she says. Because the Temple of Bloom wasn’t built for recording, the studio itself became a collaborator. Veirs paused takes for rain on the skylight–or let it stay. She waited out neighbors’ conversations, raced to finish a sensitive vocal before a stump grinder roared to life, and included the presence of resident bluejays, passing crows, and other neighborhood sounds. These ambient intrusions lend the album an intimate, lived-in authenticity. She used no click tracks and no electronic instruments, working by feel and intuition while watching bamboo sway outside her studio window.

Laura Veirs 2026 Tour Dates

08/14/26 – Instagram & Facebook Livestream with Corin Tucker @ Laura’s House – 7:15 pm PST
08/15/26 – Portland, OR @ Music Millenium
08/30/26 – Dayton, OR – Live Wire Speakeasy Series @ Domaine Drouhin Oregon Winery
09/10/26 – Cambridge, UK @ Storey’s Field Centre
09/11/26 – Sheffield, UK @ Upper Chapel
09/12/26 – Newcastle, UK @ Cluny 2
09/13/26 – Glasgow, UK @ Saint Luke’s
09/14/26 – Manchester, UK @ St. Michael’s
09/16/26 – London, UK @ Earth
09/17/26 – Southampton, UK @ Papillon
09/18/26 – Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew – SOLD OUT
09/19/26 – Birmingham, UK @ Kitchen Garden Cafe – SOLD OUT
09/20/26 – Nottingham, UK @ Old Cold Store
09/22/26 – Galway, IE @ Monroe’s
09/23/26 – Dublin, IE @ Whelan’s
09/24/26 – Belfast, UK @ The Black Box
09/25/26 – Kilkenny, IE @ Cleere’s
10/08/26 – Vienna, VA @ Jammin Java
10/09/26 – Philadelphia, PA @ Nikki Lopez
10/10/26 – New York, NY @ Cafe Wha
10/11/26 – Boston, MA @ Club Passim
10/13/26 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern
10/14/26 – Columbus, OH @ Natalie’s
10/15/26 – Evanston, IL @ Space
10/16/26 – Fort Atkinson, WI @ Cafe Carpe
10/17/26 – Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center
10/19/26 – Los Angeles, CA @ Peppermint Club
10/20/26 – San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord
10/22/26 – Trout Lake, WA @ Trout Lake Hall
10/23/26 – Vashon, WA @ Open Space for Arts & Community
10/24/26 – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
10/25/26 – Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
10/26/26 – Mount Vernon, WA @ Lincoln Theatre
12/20/26 – Berlin, DE @ Donau115
04/14/27 – Paris, FR @ La Mechanique Ondulatoire
04/15/27 – Essen, DE @ JUBB Werden

Pre-order Temple Songs by Laura Veirs HERE