Album Review by EDF
The follow up to 1997’s release DRAG finds K.D. Lang in fine voice.
Each track is classic K.D. Lang showcasing different sides of ‘that voice’. The songs themselves are unfortunately a different matter depending what it is your looking for.
While her previous release DRAG had smoking as its theme, the central theme running through INVINCIBLE SUMMER is a love theme. We are treated with some dodgy lyrics on certain tracks like SUMMERFLING. This track is so corny you could imagine Austin Powers singing the following “The smell of Sunday in our hair, You ran on the beach with Kennedy flair”. The music for this particular track switches from AOR to disco to who knows what. It’s all well and good only then you come across another throwaway lyric “In this crazy world full of lemons baby, you’re lemonade”. Whereby EXTRAORDINARY THING is classic Lang where melody, lyrics and vocals works so well, it would be a shame not to release it as a single.
The whole of the album is filled to the brim with love songs. Whether or not this will delight the listener or test their patience will have to be seen. As always K.D.’s in top form.
If only her next album was all about driving…
