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Track Listing
1. Consequences of Falling, The
2. Summerfling
3. Suddenly
4. It's Happening With You
5. Extraordinary Thing
6. Love's Great Ocean
7. Simple
8. What Better Said
9. When We Collide
10. Curiosity
11. Only Love
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Jon Hassell | | Producer: | Damian LeGassick | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: K.D. Lang (vocals); Abe Laboriel, Jr. (vocals, guitar, bass, drums); David Piltch (guitar, mandolin, whistle, cornet, Moog synthesizer, keyboards, bass); Greg Leisz (guitar, pedal steel guitar); Damian LeGassick (guitar, keyboards); Wendy Melvoin, Smokey Hormel, Jon Stewart (guitar); Ben Mink (violin, viola, keyboards); John Friesen (cello); Gayle Levant (harp); Teddy Borowiecki (accordion, keyboards); Jon Hassell (trumpet).
Since abandoning the neo-country sound cultivated on her first three albums, K.D. Lang has spent the new few albums in chanteuse mode, poking around in a playland of sophisticated pop. On 2000's INVINCIBLE SUMMER, the Canadian songbird looks to a quote from Camus for the title and then loosens the reins considerably, putting together a collection of dreamy, Burt Bacharach-flavored songs reflective of her relocation from the Canadian hinterlands to sunny Southern California.
Teaming with William Orbit protege Damian leGassick, Lang conjures up 11 tracks soaked in an aura of ambiance. Among the elements lacing these songs are hints of bossa nova ("Suddenly"), quirky pop goosed along by Eurodisco string arrangements ("It's Happening with You") and a swirling mix of Lang's sultry vocals in a homage to Roy Orbison ("Love's Great Ocean"). Throughout all of SUMMER, the thread that ties all these songs together is love, ranging from how uncomplicated it can be (the sparsely arranged "Simple") to the yearning felt for a secret love (the lush "When We Collide"). Best of all is "What Better Said," a sinewy song awash in electronic beeps and beats that finds Lang waiting for a reciprocated declaration of love.
Industry Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - ...Quick-paced fluff with the retro exactness, and the soul, of a Pottery barn sofa....[Her] lighter musical tack encourages her to retire the galloping self-regard that can cancel the attractiveness of her voice...
Rolling Stone (07/20/2000)
Lang wants to be sunny, flirty, and lighthearted throughout this shimmery CD....[her] music is often as wispy as the commitment she shows her objects of affection. - Rating: B-
Entertainment Weekly (06/23/2000)
...Reflects her new, care-free attitude, topped with sweeping orchestration and multi-layered vocal harmonies...
CMJ (06/26/2000)
3 stars out of 5 - ...Quick-paced fluff with the retro exactness, and the soul, of a Pottery barn sofa....[Her] lighter musical tack encourages her to retire the galloping self-regard that can cancel the attractiveness of her voice...Entertainment Weekly (6/23/00, p.102) - Lang wants to be sunny, flirty, and lighthearted throughout this shimmery CD....[her] music is often as wispy as the commitment she shows her objects of affection. - Rating: B-Mojo (7/00, p.111) - ...Light, upbeat, near as dammit antithetical to her agony-of-love INGENUE, [INVINCIBLE SUMMER] finds her with hands trembling, pulse quickening, running along the beach, luxuriating in love's joys....finding her surrendering to it body and soul.Uncut (8/00, p.92) - 4 stars out of 5 - ...Perhaps it's because she sounds like the love child of Patsy Cline and Nat King Cole, but the summers she conjures up are those of long ago...CMJ (6/26/00, p.33) - ...Reflects her new, care-free attitude, topped with sweeping orchestration and multi-layered vocal harmonies...
Rolling Stone (07/20/2000)
4 stars out of 5 - ...Perhaps it's because she sounds like the love child of Patsy Cline and Nat King Cole, but the summers she conjures up are those of long ago...
Uncut (08/01/2000)
...Light, upbeat, near as dammit antithetical to her agony-of-love INGENUE, [INVINCIBLE SUMMER] finds her with hands trembling, pulse quickening, running along the beach, luxuriating in love's joys....finding her surrendering to it body and soul.
Mojo (07/01/2000)
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