Sarah McLachlan is back with her first album of new material in more than a decade. Better Broken, the follow-up to her 2016 Christmas album, Wonderland, and 2014’s Shine On, arrives September 19 via Concord. Below, watch a video for the title track directed by Lauren Wade.
McLachlan said in a press release, “A lot of the lyrics on this record came from thinking about the world right now and asking, ‘How do we move through this landscape? How do we keep our heads above water when it feels like so much is falling apart?’ I don’t know if I have any answers, but channeling all that angst and uncertainty into the music has been so cathartic. I hope that this record provides people with some relief and release—but in the end I just want them to take whatever they need from it, and make the songs part of their own story.”
McLachlan recorded the new album at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles, working with producers Tony Berg and Will Maclellan and musicians including Wendy Melvoin, Matt Chamberlain, Benny Bock, and Greg Leisz. Muna’s Katie Gavin features on “Reminds Me.”
Read Ivy Nelson’s Sunday Review of Sarah McLachlan’s Fumbling Towards Ecstasy.
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Better Broken:
01 Better Broken
02 Gravity
03 The Last to Go
04 Only Way Out Is Through
05 Reminds Me [ft. Katie Gavin]
06 One in a Long Line
07 Only Human
08 Long Road Home
09 Rise
10 Wilderness
11 If This Is the End…
