Archive for April, 2010

Another article/interview! This one is specific about The Laws Of Illusion.

AfterEllen.com: It’s been seven-plus years since you’ve recorded an album of all original material, and you’ve historically taken a few years off between albums. Is there a specific reason for that?
Sarah McLachlan: Yeah. Mostly it’s because I had kids. I wasn’t a prolific writer by any stretch of the imagination before that and having children really slows down the process because, well, they’re the most exquisite distraction there is. I was really lucky that I got to take big chunks of time off to be a mom.

AE: How is Laws of Illusion different than Afterglow?
SM: I don’t know; I haven’t really thought about comparing the two. There’s a lot of light and darkness on this record, and there’s a sort of real raw energy to this record that I haven’t felt before. The process in which we recorded it was a lot quicker. We recorded it live off-the-floor stuff, which is sort of a bunch of musicians in a room, here are the songs, here are the chords, go, record.

We did six songs in five days that way; the bulk of the songs. That was really exciting and fun and just kept it fresh with a different kind of energy. The past couple records have been a week in Montreal and then my producer coming to Vancouver. So lots of slowly building up songs a lot quicker.

Read the full article here.

This saturday, May 1st, Sarah will be the guest performer at the 20th Annual William Shatner’s Priceline.com Hollywood Charity Horse Show. Read more about it here!

And another new article/interview Miguel posted on the forum:

SheWired: It has been seven years since you’ve released a full-length album with new material. What has changed within that timeframe for you?

Sarah McLachlan: Wow. Well, I’m seven years older. I have a second child who’s in my arms right now trying to fall asleep. She is almost three years old and is the most delicious creature ever. My marriage dissolved of almost 11 years.

SheWired: I’m sorry about that.

Well, shit happens! You know, life kind of ended as I knew it and I had to re-connect with myself and find myself.

SW: If you could give one word of advice to your 20-year-old self knowing what you know now, what would you say?

Sarah: I don’t really feel like I’d do anything different. Communication…maybe, and learning to open up. Say how you feel and talk about it. Communication is key. Don’t bury stuff. I am a very Pandora’s box kind of person. You know, “stuff it in, stuff it in. I don’t have time. Stuff it in” and then, POOF! Then I explode. You know, these things do come with age and I’m still working on them. I’m 42 and I am nowhere near figuring it out. As a matter of fact, I feel like I’m learning to crawl again, you know? It’s a slow never-ending process and the painful “growing up” stuff.

Read the full interview here.

Miguel just posted this on the forum, a new article from The Globe and Mail:

With her new single, McLachlan’s heart is boldly back on her sleeve, but it appears to be all patched up, and then some. She sounds positively blissful in the upbeat, definitely-not-a-ballad Loving You Is Easy. “I’m alive and I’m on fire,” she belts out.

McLachlan says the song marks a decidedly different up-tempo mood her music has not shown before – and it is autobiographical.

“It’s been a roller coaster these last few years for sure,” McLachlan said. “A lot of emotional highs and lows. I did get a taste of finding love again, which is certainly what this song is all about. The delirious, overwhelming flush of new possibilities. That being said, I am happily single these days and better from the whole experience.”

Read the full article here.

Sarah’s new single Loving You Is Easy has been announced! Listen to it on Sarah’s official site! The single will be available for download on May 4th.

Listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcIqPINH2RM&feature=player_embedded

YEY! Enjoy!