★★★★★
Like stepping in from the cold to find a warm fireplace and your favourite blanket. The new album, Shine On, by Sarah McLachlan is the musical equivalent of getting re-acquainted with an old friend. Filled with her distinctive and glistening vocals that have been off the airways for far too long. In fact this album has been six years in the making. For many this album has been a long wait, mainly due to life getting in the way...
- www.theaureview.com
2014-05-23
★★★★★
Like stepping in from the cold to find a warm fireplace and your favourite blanket. The new album, Shine On, by Sarah McLachlan is the musical equivalent of getting re-acquainted with an old friend. Filled with her distinctive and glistening vocals that have been off the airways for far too long. In fact this album has been six years in the making. For many this album has been a long wait, mainly due to life getting in the way...
- www.theaureview.com
2014-05-21
★★★★★
Sarah McLachlan's latest disc Shine On is reportedly inspired by both the death of her father and her desire to live with more resilience going into the second half of her life. Coming as it does on the heels of the aching, heartbreak-drenched Laws of Illusion, this would lead the casual observer to think another dark, brooding affair is just around the bend. Surprisingly, for an album inspired by loss, Shine On starts with the light-on-its-feet ballad "In Your Shoes"...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-05-13
★★★★★
?????????? Considering that the latest album by Sarah McLachlan, the queen of the mournful piano ballad, is largely inspired by personal tragedy, one might expect an unrelenting deluge of misery. Luckily, that is not the case, as McLachlan includes enough hopeful moments to break through the pain. Shine On is McLachlan's eighth studio album and first with Verve Records after a 22-year history with Nettwerk...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2014-05-13
★★★★★
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Twenty-five years into her career, Sarah McLachlan does what she does and you're either out or in when it comes to the Canadian songbird's pleasant, gorgeously sung, but perhaps not always exciting, adult contemporary pop. Fans will definitely want in on "Shine On," McLachlan's first new release in four years and home to several standout tracks in the11-song collection...
- www.bostonglobe.com
2014-05-08
★★★★★
3 Singers Return, Reflecting About Life
Albums by Natalie Merchant, Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan
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Natalie Merchant
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Roberta Parkin/Redferns
"Pushin' on, pushin' on, isn't that what I'm supposed to do...
- www.nytimes.com
2014-05-08
★★★★★
3 Singers Return, Reflecting About Life
Albums by Natalie Merchant, Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan
Photo
Natalie Merchant
Credit
Roberta Parkin/Redferns
"Pushin' on, pushin' on, isn't that what I'm supposed to do...
- www.nytimes.com
2014-05-12
★★★★★
Shine On captures Sarah McLachlan at a period of transition, switching labels (she's signed with Verve after decades at Arista) and experiencing the death of her father and divorce from her husband. Some of this turbulence can be heard underneath the surface of Shine On -- explicitly so on "Song for My Father" and "Broken Heart," whose titles give their game away -- but the defining characteristic of this seventh McLachlan studio album is not despair but rather hope...
- www.allmusic.com
2014-05-12
★★★★★
Plagued by increasingly middling album sales, Sarah McLachlan is in a position to take the kind of risks she was probably wise to eschew in the wake of her blockbuster 1997 album Surfacing. Though longtime collaborator Pierre Marchand is on board for most of the songs, Shine On marks the first time since her 1988 debut that the singer-songwriter has worked on an album with producers other than him. It's also her first effort since her departure from Arista Records...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2014-04-29
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