Label: Arista Records (US), 07822-18970-2
Style: Pop
Country: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (January 28, 1968)
Time: 41:17
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 254 Mb
Charts: CAN #1, AUS #37, NLD #52, NZ #13, UK #47, US #2. AUS, UK & NZ: Gold; US: 8x Platinum; CAN: Diamond.
In
the leadup to Surfacing, Sarah McLachlan’s personal life was in
tatters. She had built a reputation as an ethereal folk songstress with a
gorgeous voice and powerful performances at the piano with her wave
making Fumbling Towards Ecstacy. Her romance with keyboardist Dave
Kershaw had met a bitter end and a gruelling two and a half years spent
touring left her jaded and exhausted.
Under the advice of her manager
she ran away to Vancouver to decompress, bought a new home, a new
piano, and adopted a black lab. The sabbatical gave her creativity
another breath, reinstated her control as a songwriter and she thrived
again with a collection of new songs that seemed to just flow from her
pen. She returned to Montreal where her favourite producer Pierre
Marchand awaited their next project. Surfacing benefits greatly from
this jolt in creativity and naturalness, but the inspiration would
continue.
She also found love again, this time with her drummer of
seven years, Ashwin Sood. Together they ran away to Jamaica during the
album’s sessions to tie the knot in a tropical ceremony. Little did
either of them know the wide reach Surfacing would give McLachlan.
Listening
to the record today, its place in the market becomes obvious as a
collection of near soft favourites for the right hand of the radio dial,
but Surfacing’s best material, conveniently its best known songs, not
only stands among the finest music of its time written and performed at a
piano, but provides a unique perspective of the instability and
uncertainty of love. Throughout the album she diffuses the conformity
that plagued her adolescence and faces the things about herself she
considered ugly. I have complete confidence that you will be holding
back tears singing these songs for the rest of your life.
(Full version: smackmedia.ca/deep-cuts/review-sarah-mclachlan-surfacing)
01. Building A Mystery (04:07)
02. I Love You (04:44)
03. Sweet Surrender (04:00)
04. Adia (04:04)
05. Do What You Have To Do (03:46)
06. Witness (04:47)
07. Angel (04:30)
08. Black & White (05:02)
09. Full Of Grace (03:41)
10. Last Dance (02:32)
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