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K.D. LANG Sing It Loud (2011 UK 10-track CD album - With 'Sing it
Loud', her first studio album in three years, KD Lang is, in one sense,
revisiting her roots. She's backed by a new, full-time band, Siss Boom
Bang, which recalls, in spirit if not sound, the exhilarating work she
created at the start of her career with her original band, The Reclines.
But she's also breaking new ground as a songwriter and producer
collaborating on this elegant yet rough-around-the-edges set with
multi-instrumentalist Joe Pisapia, previously a member of jam-band
stalwarts Guster. 'Sing It Loud' embraces both the dramatic and
easygoing; lead-off track, and first single, 'I Confess', is all torch and
twang; this impassioned, first-person narrative about romantic longing
and reconciliation - proving once again that the best part of breaking
up is indeed making up - reaches a stirring, Roy Orbison-like
crescendo of strings. While Lang's previous studio album, 2008's
'Watershed', featured strikingly understated vocal performances,
alternately contemplative and sensual, this time she returns to belting
it out whenever the songs, and the emotions, demand. Conversely, on
tracks like the inspirational 'Sing It Loud' and the gently nostalgic
'Inglewood', she keeps her performances softer and more intimate,
though no less compelling; these impeccably arranged, small-combo
tracks recall the classic country-rock feel of fellow Canadian Neil
Young's 'Harvest'. She also offers a graceful rendition of the Talking
Heads' 'Heaven', another thoughtfully chosen cover that she
immediately makes her own. Complete with a 20-page picture
booklet!)
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