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 Building a Discography Nov 08, 2009
While she is not what one would call a highly influential singer or songwriter, Sarah McLachlin's primary contribution to the extension of musical culture is being the founder of Lilith Fair, the groundbreaking all-female musical extravaganza during the Lollapalooza festival era. Her music, an earthy/spacial mixture of new age emotions and feminine pop smarts, dovetailed nicely with many of the Lilith gang, like Paula Cole, Sinéad O'Connor or Natalie Merchant.
Which makes Sarah's "Closer" a tidy wrap-up of the career she's built on that identity and her style of singing/songwriting. The singles are all here, like "Building A Mystery," "Sweet Surrender" and the moving "Angel." Most of the songs come from Sarah's middle period, comprising of Fumbling Towards Ecstasy and Surfacing, when she moved more towards piano based pop that found her in a calmer, thoughtful place. (Compared to the younger track, "Vox" from Touch, which seems like it wanted to be a Eurythmics song.)
Once she found this groove, Sarah worked it like few others could. Her producer and working partner, Pierre Marchand, have taken these records into the earthy/atmospheric territory folks like Daniel Lanois or Brian Eno first pioneered. It makes the seven tracks from that period (eight if you count the live version of "I Will Remember You") the best on "Closer." The three from Afterglow begin showing signs of overproduction, while two new songs round out the CD.
Of those two, the most telling is "U Want Me 2." It falls back to a stripped down pop base, yet keeps the earthy atmosphere of her best work. "Don't Give Up On Us" sounds like it could have come from any of her albums' outtakes and offers nothing new. For fans who haven't owned any of Sarah's other albums, "Closer" does a nice wrap-up.
 excellent Nov 08, 2009
I was looking for a sarah mclachlan cd that had certain songs on it and for a good price. It didn't take me but a minute to find out what I was looking for and the shopping and payment was so easy. I received the cd in an acceptable length of time and in excellent condition. I have bought products before and have never been dissatisfied with anything. I knew I wouldn't be this time either. Thank you again.
1 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 WTF Sep 09, 2009
As soon as I bought the MP3 of "I Will Remember You," I noticed 2 things right away
1. What's up with the crappy sound quality?
2. It's not the studio version, but a live performance. Hmmmm, it would have been nice to know that before I bought it.
Great collection! Sep 09, 2009
I've been a huge fan of Sarah McLachlan since her first album (I saw her in a crowd of a few hundred people the first time!), and found this collection to be extremely satisfying. Almost all of her best work is captured here... She's got some great material, so I can understand that not everything could make it on here. The most notable omission: Fear.
The sound quality seems decent to me, so I am not sure what some reviewers are experiencing.
0 of 4 found the following review helpful:
I don't know what to call it. Aug 12, 2009
Product is as it should be. Delivery in good shape and timely. I am not sure whast you want in a review.
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