k.d. lang - Watershed
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Free Music Review: she could sing a shopping list, and make it sound great....
Hit: 5 Stars
watershed is first rate music, singing, songwriting, its all here, pop, country, some of the best tracks, I dream of spring, comming home, sunday, upstream, soulful, deep, strong. if you like or love kd lang, and after eight years for some written songs by ms lang, how could you not love this cd. There are no top 10 songs here.....just great music, wonderful singing, thanks kd, for your great gift. i am a fan for life.Free Music Review: Exquisite stuff.
Hit: 4 Stars
Four time Grammy winner k.d. lang's new album "Watershed" is the first album of newly written material since 2000's "Invincible Summer".
For a while, Lang wasn't writing songs anywhere.
In the intervening years, she has recorded cover versions and duets, but nothing has emerged from her own pen.
Fans who were constantly craving another album like "Ingenue" wondered if she had lost the knack.
Writer's block was the problem, apparently. And the catalyst behind the unleashing of Watershed's sequence of love songs was that the Canadian singer/songwriter has found happiness with her new love.
"I wondered that myself," she says. "I think that when I start out on any new record".
But now "Watershed" is finished, ready, good and immaculately delivered.
So why the lengthy wait? "I got writer's block. There were a number of contributory factors. One was 9/11, which turned the atmosphere in America - politically, emotionally and artistically - on its ear. Afterwards I couldn't write love songs. They just seemed so frivolous".
It features eleven new songs written and recorded in 2007 for Nonesuch label, and is also the first self-produced collection of her 25-year career.
It doesn't disappoint. But, please, don't rush ! Don't expect to be hooked at the first listening.
Should you wish to spend some time letting these songs get under your skin, then they will slowly reveal their charms - and occasionally, as on the breathily magnificent "Shadow and the Frame", match lang's former glories. Lyrically, she's not a very interesting songwriter, but then words aren't really her thing.
kd lang's voice is a remarkable instrument, and it's for its instrumental qualities that she writes her long, languorous melodies framed in elaborately simple arrangements, leading to the creation of an intensely moody mood.
It's pretty exquisite stuff - the string charts are just lovely - and stands as a (self-produced) summary of the genres she's dabbled in. Samba, country and jazz are referenced with a sophisticated passing wink, but no more.This beautiful CD sees her re-embracing the gorgeous balladry of "Ingenue", infusing everything with a gentle country twang in the process.
"I Dream of Spring", "Once in a While" and "Sunday" are magisterial, showcasing that knife-through-butter voice.
"Flame of the Uninspired", is full of unsentimental regret, and the growly "Jealous Dog" recalls a female Johnny Cash.
Sounding more than ever like a velvet-voiced Patsy Cline, Lang is on near-perfect form on this astonishing album:lang always appears perfectly matched to her material, so convincing is her interpretation of everything she touches.
There is huge pleasure to be had from the rich, sensual power of her voice.
Twentyfive years on, k.d. lang, now 46, can still evoke the sting of adolescent infatuation.
Rated: 4.5 stars