|
Amazon.co.uk Currency Converter
Amazon.co.uk allows you to pay for your items in your local currency. Restrictions apply. Learn More. |
Product details
|
|
Review Watershed, her first album of original material since the exceptional pop sheen of 2000's Invincible Summer, does little to dispel this feeling. Encouragingly, I Dream Of Spring opens with a very contemporary African sound. But then both the song and the album seamlessly move into the lush yet plaintive soundscapes she's been ranging across for the past fifteen years. However beautifully crafted and achingly performed this is, it's unlikely to win over many new converts.
A new k.d. lang album is no small thing, however. And on its own terms, Watershed - the title of which perhaps refers as much to the fact that this work is her first self-production as it does any more personal turning point - is an affecting account of endings and the hope for renewal. She may have softened her edges yet the album covers all of her bases from country ballads to dusky jazz and does it with the confidence you'd expect of an artist as comfortable with her own abilities.
Ultimately, at 46 it seems that k.d. lang is both happy and still creative, even if she could do with some nudging out of her comfort zone. In the end, this is a great album to cheer up the end of Winter; as beguiling and seductive as a dream, from which the subtleties and complexities are only slowly revealed. --Tim Nelson
Find more music at the BBC This link will take you off Amazon in a new window
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
|
|
|