Sarah McLachlan

Not to be confused with the Neil Young/Pearl Jam album of almost the same name (two words instead of one), the live Mirrorball kicks off with a rolling version of "Building a Mystery" and doesn't stop there. McLachlan pours on one radio hit after another throughout the set, showing why she's so esteemed in pop songstress circles.

In 1995, sometime folkie and fellow Canadian Neil Young released an album also titled Mirror
Ball; Sarah McLachlan's version could use some of Young's sharpness. Even when she sings
of vampires and voodoo, McLachlan's candlelit aesthetic renders everything toothless on
this live foray. Beginning with the admittedly pretty "Building a Mystery" through "Adia,"
Mirrorball's first half-dozen songs sound stultifyingly the same. Hanging tough to t... More >