Sarah McLachlan

Everybody's favorite vapor-voiced Canadian chanteuse returns with her first album of the century. Don't be disturbed by McLachlan's new "I've entered Mordor to battle Saruman" wardrobe. "Afterglow," still features Sarah's signature sound -- otherworldly vocals soaring over intensely atmospheric alterna-ballads.

Sarah McLachlan has a gorgeous voice -- malleable and exotic. She is a skillful composer,
sensitive enough to write an album inspired in part by the death of her mother and the
birth of her baby girl. But at its worst, McLachlan's music can be overly obsessed with the
pursuit of beauty, soporific and self-absorbed - no matter how intelligently crafted it may
be. McLachlan's first studio album since 1997's multiplatinum Surfacing, Afterglo... More >