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 Mirrorball 
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Sarah McLachlan
Mirrorball (Arista/BMG) By Allison Stewart (Cdnow) The Who's Live at Leeds not withstanding, history has shown little use for live albums, a '70s dinosaur rock concept that has largely gone the way of the eight-track tape. Mirrorball would seem to have little purpose other than to showcase Sarah McLachlan's ever-more-splendid voice, which is reason enough. Mirrorball encompasses hits ("Angel," "Possession," "Building a Mystery"), rarities ("Path of Thorns," from the pre-breakthrough Solace, "I Will Remember You"), and crowd-pleasers ("Ice Cream"), none of which vary wildly from their recorded counterparts. "Possession" is a little funkier, and "I Will Remember You" a little more assured, while Surfacing's frankly awful "I Love You" is little improved. Mirrorball has minimal crowd noise and little to suggest it isn't a studio album. It functions just as well as a greatest hits package, or, given that McLachlan tends to release records at a glacial pace, a placeholder in between studio records. At this rate, her next one won't be due until sometime in 2002. |
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