Product Description

'Watershed' is the tenth studio album from K.D. Lang and her first to contain original material since 2000's 'Invincible Summer'. Recorded in California and produced by Lang herself, the album continues with the mix of classic contemporarypop and country that has graced her previous work and has earned Lang multiple Grammy awards.

Track Listing

1. I Dream of Spring
2. Je fais la planche
3. Coming Home
4. Once in a While
5. Thread
6. Close Your Eyes
7. Sunday
8. Flame of the Uninspired
9. Upstream
10. Shadow and the Frame
11. Jealous Dog

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1011 in Music
• Released on: 2008-01-28
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Watershed is the first major project from celebrated Canadian chanteuse k.d. lang since 2004's Hymns of the 49th Parallel. Where Hymns explored the music of fellow Canadians such as Ron Sexsmith, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, Watershed represents the first set of original songs from lang in around eight years. Self-produced and arranged by musicians she has worked with a lot in the past, the most striking aspect of the album is its intimate, homely feel. Adding to the cozy ambience is the fact that Watershed brings most of lang's musical passions and influences--jazz, country, folk, bossa nova--under one roof, lending the project a dreamy, mellifluous coherence. But if the musical landscape is mellow and easy to traverse, Lang's lyrics can be less comfortable. Using her laid-back, often ethereal arrangements as sugar-candied coating for thornier topics, the singer serenades with stories of broken love, occasionally harsh self-analysis and the obligatory forays into existential angst. These contrastive elements only serve to make the album stronger, adding emotional weight to the airless arrangements of "Once in a While," and the delicate "Close Your Eyes," and conjuring up images of beauty on the string-laden "I Dream of Spring," and the wonderfully lazy "Sunday". Intelligent, mature and sophisticated, Watershed is the kind of perfect pop album it's difficult not to fall in love with immediately and forever. --Paul Sullivan

Mojo, January 2008
Deceptively simple, Watershed highlights what lang does best - fulsome, ballads sung with precision-timing, intelligence and a humorous twist.

Sunday Times Magazine, January 13, 2008
'A masterpiece that holds its place next to, maybe even slightly above, Ingénue.'

Customer Reviews

Watershed
A Beautiful album. Very calm, peaceful & melancholic. Great vocals and backing music. Almost all of the tracks are first rate and can be listened to again and again

A found masterpiece......
If you're like me and have never paid any interest to KD Lang before now and have not heard any of her stuff except 'Constant Craving', then read on. I stumbled upon this album a couple of months after it had been released. As usual, I searched YouTube for any tracks on there to get a first impression and to see if I wanted to investigate further. I also watched a recent interview with KD, interspersed with tracks from Watershed. I heard 'I Dream Of Spring' and really liked it. I thought I'd download the full album and give it a listen.
I love it! It is full of delicate acoustic guitars and beautiful strings (but not overbearing), as well as soft percussion. The best thing though, is KD's voice. It is some of the most sensual singing I have ever heard. The lyrics and the general feel is a combination of yearning melancholy and comforting worldliness. The album has cohesion, but you can also play individual songs on their own. It is brilliant.

Watershed
From start to finish this is an exceptional cd. A truly sultry voice, reminicent of Rita Coolidge from years ago. I loved it from the first, playing it over and over again, never tiring of the haunting melodies, and a voice oozing sexiness and feeling. Definitely one for the late night seduction playlist.