Touch - Sarah McLachlan

Only 19 at the time of recording this album, Sarah McLachlan's career took off after this album, leaving this one in her wake...often forgotten. Although she has a really charming voice in this album, it is a far cry from the mature and sexy vocals we have heard from her more recently (Surfacing). In this album her voice is more whimsical in feel which works wonderfully with the celtic folk rock feel of the music. It's just a shame that this kind of music doesn't do much for me and the introduction to this album 'Out of the shadows' for me sums up everything that is boring about this album. I can easily imagine this album as a soundtrack to a film ...  Read the complete review

There are a great many unresolved mysteries in life. What is the meaning of life? Is there life on Mars? Why can’t the Greeks invent a proper flushing toilet and finally and more crucially for this opinion why is Sarah Mclachlan not better known in the UK? Like Suzanne Vega, Mclachlan has the air of a forgotten artist whose influence on recent contemporaries has gone largely unacknowledged. Whilst she is better known in the States, Mclachlan’s fanbase remains primarily that of a cult, although the use some of her songs on the soundtracks to ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and ‘Toy Story 2’ has brought greater attention to her work. ...  Read the complete review