Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

It took me a lot of listens to get Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, but this afternoon, it's finally taken...lush, luscious, full of longing, and at once dramatic and intimate, it's the album of which, in retrospect, Surfacing and Afterglow were more concise, more contemporary, and less good versions. It has a kind of glow, an energy and a languor, which owes much to its understated electronic elements, which are on the verge of being dated but not quite tipping over...I don't know how much or how regularly I'll listen to it going forward, but it was worth persevering at least to this point.