Invincible Summer [Digipak] - K.D. Lang > Reviews

Advantages: Light, summery music
Disadvantages: Can flow over you at times, and feel like background music

This album represents, in part at least, a return to the style of “Ingenue”, lang’s 1996 album, following the flirtation with dance styles (“Just keep me moving”) and the treading water (in my opinion anyway) covers album “Drag”. The first track, “Consequences of falling”, straight away reminds me of “Ingénue”, it has a sensual feel to it, and why not – it is a song about falling ... Read review

Advantages: Long luxuriant lyrics
Disadvantages: none

The female Elvis strikes again with this melodious and haunting classic. This is a first class works by Ms Lang and rates alongside ‘Ingenue’ almost track for track. I bought this long awaited album the week it came out and never had it off the CD drive for weeks and still listen to it on a regular basis. Particular favourites are ‘the consequences of falling, ‘extraordinary thing’, ‘simple’ and ‘only ... Read review

Advantages: cool
Disadvantages:

KD Lang's new album is a rich, melodic feast making good use of her excllent range. On first hearing I found it slightly inaccessible, but after four or five passes, it is addictive, a genuine grower. I started to realise that a couple of these songs have already been in the background for a while. There is nothing here with quite the range of, say, Black Coffee, but what is there makes a more integrated album than before. With this album has ventured ... Read review