Sarah McLachlan has announced her first proper LP in over a decade. Better Broken, which follows her 2016 Christmas album, Wonderland, and 2014’s Shine On, is set for release on September 19 via Concord. The warm, evocative title track arrives today along with a video directed by Lauren Wade. Check it out below.
“A lot of the lyrics on this record came from thinking about the world right now and asking, ‘How do we move through this landscape? How do we keep our heads above water when it feels like so much is falling apart?’” McLachland said in a press release. “I don’t know if I have any answers, but channeling all that angst and uncertainty into the music has been so cathartic. I hope that this record provides people with some relief and release—but in the end I just want them to take whatever they need from it, and make the songs part of their own story.”
McLachlan laid down the new album at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles. She enlisted producers Tony Berg and Will Maclellan and a cast of musicians including Wendy Melvoin, Matt Chamberlain, Benny Bock, and Greg Leisz. MUNA’s Katie Gavin makes a guest appearance on the song ‘Reminds Me’.
Better Broken Cover Artwork:
Better Broken Tracklist:
1. Better Broken
2. Gravity
3. The Last to Go
4. Only Way Out Is Through
5. Reminds Me [ft. Katie Gavin]
6. One in a Long Line
7. Only Human
8. Long Road Home
9. Rise
10. Wilderness
11. If This Is the End…