She's not lyrically as specific a songwriter as her fellow Canadian Joni Mitchell, but Kathryn Dawn Lang has an amazing gift for metaphor and melody and those traits are on rich display in ALL YOU CAN EAT, probably my favorite of all k.d.'s albums. It is in some ways a sort of INGENUE TWO but I personally find it prettier and more open than that monster smash predecessor. Which makes sense: she'd come out, her best charting album was behind her, maybe the pressure was off. It's a laid back, sensuous, groovy album that snakes its way into your head. The layered harmonies (all k.d.; no other vocalists) are thick honey behind the lead vocal, That Gorgeous Voice. One of a kind she is. In a word: wow.
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