k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang's new album, Sing it Loud, is out today on Nonesuch Records. The album is lang's first made entirely with a band of her own since the pair of albums with the Reclines that launched her career over 20 years ago. To celebrate, lang and the band performed "I Confess," the opening track to the new album, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night. You can watch the complete episode below, which also features guest Jamie Foxx, now through April 28; lang and the band's performance is in the final segment.

Last night's pre-release celebrations also included a performance of the album in its entirety at Los Angeles's Troubador, an experience lang and the Siss Boom Bang will offer her New York fans at (Le) Poisson Rouge Thursday night. Earlier that day, lang and the band will have performed on Good Morning America; the following day, this Friday, they will appear on The View. In advance of Thursday's show at Poisson Rouge, the New York Times's Jon Pareles says: "k.d. lang’s big, sultry voice harks back to a bygone era, when pop and country singers knew how to linger over a song’s melody."

"The big, beautiful voice of k.d. lang swoops, purrs and soars through the 10 songs on Sing it Loud,” says the Los Angeles Times, giving the album three-and-a-half stars out of four. And with her new band, says reviewer Evelyn McDonnell, lang "has found her guitar groove again." Comparing the Siss Boom Bang to the likes of the Band and Wilco, McDonnell says they "back lang with a delightfully ramshackle playfulness. They leave lots of space to let her voice be the star, but never so much that she’s the diva." Read the complete review at latimes.com.

Up in lang's home country of Canada, reviewer Mike Bell, writing in the Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, and National Post, says "Sing it Loud is a torch-and-twangtinged stunner that wonderfully recalls lang's early days touring the Canadian country-and-western circuit in the early '80s with backup band The Reclines, and later releasing the classic country albums Angel with a Lariat, Shadowland, and Absolute Torch and Twang." Read the article at ottawacitizen.com.

To pick up a copy of Sing it Loud, with high-quality, 320 kbps MP3s of the complete album included at checkout, head to the Nonesuch Store now.

Watch k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang on The Tonight Show here: