March 28th, 2017

As Surfacing turns 20 this year, some articles popped up with stories/memories of making the album & recording it.

Sarah McLachlan will never forget how sick she was of hearing the hit songs off her 1997 smash album “Surfacing” — and that was before it was even released.

The Halifax-born singer’s record — which was loaded with hits including “Building a Mystery,” “Sweet Surrender,” “Adia” and “Angel” — was at the centre of a cultural movement, released as her touring Lilith Fair music festival found its footing 20 years ago.

Yet McLachlan couldn’t shake the resentment she felt towards the music.

“We’d been recording and mixing, fine tuning and beating them to death,” she remembers.

“By the time the album was done I was really like, ‘Ugh, I don’t even want to hear any of these songs again.'”

Read “From the studio to Lilith Fair: Sarah McLachlan’s ‘Surfacing’ turns 20” and “Sarah McLachlan and producer Pierre Marchand share stories behind ‘Surfacing’“!