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Wonderland is now available! Head over to Sarah’s official site for all the links (download/buy).

Here is a new article on Wonderland:

“These songs have been done to death in thousands of different ways, and, as a musician, you’re trying to push the envelope a little bit and create something that’s different that people haven’t heard,” Sarah McLachlan explains, referring to Wonderland, her Yuletide collection that has its release on Verve this Friday (21st). “I felt a responsibility to do something a bit unique and different. You have to walk the fine line between creating something new and respecting the tradition and history. You never know where it’s going to go.”

From the Sarah McLachlan Shop:

Sarah McLachlan presents her all new holiday album ‘Wonderland’ in this super deluxe fan bundle. Included in this set: ‘Wonderland’ CD, vanilla scented candle, Christmas ornament and collective tote bag. First 250 bundles include a signed copy of ‘Wonderland’!

“Wonderland” is now available for pre-order on iTunes! Clicky right here. Furthermore, the song “Winter Wonderland” is already up as first single! Both the album and “Winter Wonderland” are available in the Google Play store.

Also, a deluxe edition featuring two more tracks (“Amazing Grace” and “Snow”) is available over at Barnes & Nobles!

More Wonderland stuff: a short video featuring the promoshoot..

And, an article!

The album features classics such as “Silver Bells” reimagined into a shimmering, orchestrated picturesque tale as well as “Angels We Have Heard On High,” a percussive hymn of adoration and Randy Newman’s forlorn “Snow” from the 1960s. Emmylou Harris contributes vocals on “Go Tell It On The Mountain”, also featuring Martha Wainwright, and “Away In A Manager,” a new holiday song reinvented as a country shuffle.

Members of Canadian quartet, Half Moon Run, play on five tracks and helped McLachlan flesh out some of the arrangements, including “Huron Carol,” Canada’s oldest Christmas song. “They’re all in their mid-to-late 20s. They’re incredible musicians,” McLachlan says. Rounding out the guests is the world famous Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra, who perform on three songs, including “Let It Snow,” “Silver Bells,” and “Huron Carol.” McLachlan enlisted orchestral arranger Brian Byrne to handle the particulars. “We had decided early on that it would be great to have string arrangements,” McLachlan says. “We left some space for that and sent the arrangements to him and said ‘Work your magic.’ He did.”

You can pre-order the new Christmas album ‘Wonderland’ on Amazon (click right here) AND check out the cover and tracklist for the album!

Tracklist:

The Christmas Song 3:19
Angels We Have Heard On High 3:39
Let It Snow 3:05
White Christmas 2:24
O Come All Ye Faithful 3:22
Go Tell It On The Mountain 2:35
Away In A Manger 2:27
Winter Wonderland 2:50
Huron Carol 3:47
Silver Bells 4:23
O Holy Night 4:56

The album will be released on October 21!