LANG, K.D. - Ingenue (25th Anniversary Ed.) (Sealed) (2LP)

25th Anniversary edition of the double platinum-selling, Grammy Award-winning album from K.D. Lang. Originally released in 1992. As James Reed writes in the 25th Anniversary Edition liner note, ‘Ing?nue is still such a mysterious body of work… You’d be hard-pressed to pinpoint when the album was released or even made and where. It slinks out of the speakers with luminous melodies in search of a soundtrack, its choruses as vast and sweeping as the Canadian prairies where lang grew up in Consort, Alberta. A strange brew of torch and twang, of pop gloss and jazz sophistication – and shot through with Eastern European flourishes… lang was fond of calling it ‘post-nuclear cabaret’ back then. Throughout Ing?nue, a succinct song cycle and ode to an unrequited relationship, we witness an artist navigating love in its many splendors. It should have come with a warning sticker on its cover: ‘Love is not always pretty. Proceed with caution – and a Kleenex.’ lang was unflinching in presenting desire as both toxic and intoxicating, a human condition that subsumes all of us at some point.’