I’ll admit it seems a little like shooting ducks in a barrel to slam Sarah McLachlan’s new album Shine On, I mean surely my terse put down earlier in the week was more than enough, right? Well, yeah and I would leave it that only it is worth mentioning that some of it isn’t the worst thing I’ve heard in my entire life.
The opening track “In Your Shoes” may well be the Lillith loser’s best song to date. It has like electric guitars and a smart swing and is really catchy. It is enough to carry her through to the bridge of “Flesh And Blood” and another good song, “Monster” which sounds a little like a chick indie popper.
But that’s your lot and pretty soon songs with names like “ Broken Heart”, “Surrender And certainty” –which is just as bad as you imagine it is. Oh, and “Song For My Father” , a primary reason why some grief should remain private, is a ponderous bore.
What I do like about Shine On, is from time to time she gets her head up from the sofa where she has been mumbling in her pillow and manages a little bottle to her. The ending of “Love Beside Me” is dark but alive… no, really, I mean more or less, relatively speaking it is a winner for sure.
I can’t take more than ten minutes combined of the album but I don’t like her at all, if I was a fan I’d be quite pleased and even as a person who has done his entire life but poke fun at her… it is the best I could’ve hoped for.
Grade: C-
