Surfacing
| Sarah McLachlan
Surfacing
Surfacing is the fourth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan. Released in 1997, it was produced by McLachlan's frequent collaborator, Pierre Marchand. McLachlan set about writing Surfacing in 1996, after two and a half years touring for her previous album, 1993's Fumbling Towards Ecstasy. Mentally exhausted, she found it difficult to concentrate on her new album and took six months off in Vancouver. After that she completed the ten songs for the album and went to Marchand's Quebec studio to record.-Wikipedia
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AV Club - Music
March 29, 2002. . . . Surfacing, her fourth studio disc, is built around lush, dramatic, echoey songs like the hit "Building A Mystery." The whole thing is long on vocal technique—her voice sounds fantastic and elastic, while the production is fuller than ever—and short on lyrical insights: Lots of lip service is paid to predictable fare like innocence and desire and sweet surrender.
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Albumism
July 27, 2017. . . . Surfacing served as a harbinger of McLachlan’s continued commitment to refining her songwriting and expanding her artistry, all of which have been evident on the handful of LPs that have followed, including her most recent non-holiday studio affair Shine On (2014).
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Entertainment
July 25, 1997. . . . on Surfacing, McLachlan’s fourth studio album and her first since 1994’s double platinum Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, she continues to make beautiful music out of terrible experiences.
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Pitchfork
Surfacing rehashes the same themes, the same chord progressions and the same sound with utterly predictable results, giving it the feel of a collection of Fumbling b-sides.
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AllMusic
All the commercial success and media hype disguised the fact that Surfacing not only didn't offer anything new from McLachlan, but it wasn't a particularly strong consolidation of her talents. That it isn't to say it's a bad record, because it certainly isn't . . . but it doesn't offer anything new, and the songs aren't as consistently captivating as they were on Fumbling Towards Ecstasy.
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Teen Ink
McLachlan's"Surfacing" is therapy for the soul, delving into our deepest thoughtsand feelings. When you need to find refuge in "the arms of an angel,"place this CD in your stereo.
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The Young Folks
July 15, 2017. Surfacing is a great album and it should come to no surprise that it’s one of McLachlan’s most popular.
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AXS
February 4, 2017. After 20 years, Sarah McLachlan's 'Surfacing' still is an aural joy to embrace and experience.
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Plugged In
Even though most of these songs deal with unstable relationships, she manages to project a glass-is-half-full attitude. Unfortunately, a few caveats hold Surfacing under the threshold of acceptability.
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Acoustic Sounds
McLachlan's bittersweet album proves again that what she and producer Pierre Marchand release is cut from the finest of cloth.
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hifi.nl
Maybe the critics wanted a spectacle in 1997 and therefore they did not see the not so innovative, but well to excellent performed songs on Surfacing for what they were (and are) worth.
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The Christian Science Monitor
August 1, 1997. Her new album, "Surfacing," may remind modern-day rockers that screeching guitars are no substitute for simplicity. McLachlan's songs are primal, often sketched only by the bare line of bass and drums - allowing her voice to weave freely between the strains of her sparse melodies.
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The Danger Zone
I love (almost) every Sarah album, but Surfacing is the only one that is completely flawless. There is not a single song that does not belong on this album.
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MAAF Box
November 30, 2018. This is one of the most beautiful albums that has ever been recorded. The sound of it comes from another place that is not of this World & I dig that!
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Don Ignacio's Music Reviews
This is a good album! I didn't get nearly the same breathtakingly gorgeous aura of Fumbling Towards Ecstasy ... but this is a very nice album, and I enjoyed it!
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