Listen: k.d. lang Talks "Ingénue" with Laura Veirs for NPR Music's "All Songs Considered"

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k.d. lang spoke with Laura Veirs about her groundbreaking album Ingénue , celebrating its 25th anniversary, for NPR Music's All Songs Considered. "Back in 1992, singer k.d. lang released a record unlike any other," says NPR's Robin Hilton. "Ingénue slithered against the popular music grain with songs that drew slow, deep breaths and sighed seductively ... And lang's monumental voice, both powerful and restrained, was simply unforgettable as she sang languorous songs of love and desire." You can hear lang and Veirs' conversation here.

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k.d. lang's breakthrough 1992 album, Ingénue, celebrates its silver anniversary this year with the release of Ingénue: 25th Anniversary Edition—remastered versions of the album's original ten tracks along with eight previously unreleased performances from lang's 1993 MTV Unplugged episode—on Nonesuch tomorrow, with vinyl to follow on August 18. To mark the release, lang spoke with Laura Veirs about the project for the NPR Music All Songs Considered +1 podcast.

"Back in 1992, singer k.d. lang released a record unlike any other," says NPR's Robin Hilton. "Ingénue slithered against the popular music grain with songs that drew slow, deep breaths and sighed seductively. It had an alluringly divergent sound that landed somewhere in a blurry nexus of pop, country and global folk, with accordions, clarinets and Eastern European flourishes. And lang's monumental voice, both powerful and restrained, was simply unforgettable as she sang languorous songs of love and desire."

You can listen to the episode and hear lang and Veirs' conversation below.

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  • Thursday, July 13, 2017
    Listen: k.d. lang Talks "Ingénue" with Laura Veirs for NPR Music's "All Songs Considered"
    Jeri Heiden

    k.d. lang's breakthrough 1992 album, Ingénue, celebrates its silver anniversary this year with the release of Ingénue: 25th Anniversary Edition—remastered versions of the album's original ten tracks along with eight previously unreleased performances from lang's 1993 MTV Unplugged episode—on Nonesuch tomorrow, with vinyl to follow on August 18. To mark the release, lang spoke with Laura Veirs about the project for the NPR Music All Songs Considered +1 podcast.

    "Back in 1992, singer k.d. lang released a record unlike any other," says NPR's Robin Hilton. "Ingénue slithered against the popular music grain with songs that drew slow, deep breaths and sighed seductively. It had an alluringly divergent sound that landed somewhere in a blurry nexus of pop, country and global folk, with accordions, clarinets and Eastern European flourishes. And lang's monumental voice, both powerful and restrained, was simply unforgettable as she sang languorous songs of love and desire."

    You can listen to the episode and hear lang and Veirs' conversation below.

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