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We’ve all been waiting so long for this moment to come: our beloved Sarah will release a Greatest Hits album on October 7th featuring two new songs. From Terry McBride’s blog comes the following information:

“It is amazing to hear Sarah McLachlan’s voice again. There is a purity to her magic as it’s from a heart that is wide open and bare in its naked emotion. The melodies are addictive, the lyrics personal to each and everyone, and the delivery is both spine chilling and uplifting. The airwaves sincerely need her energy. There will be many tears shed, many in happiness, when these songs get released. The first track will go public one month from now.”

Oh my God, one month from now. I hope you’re all as excited as I am! (oh of course you are…). Also, Sarah appeared on stage in Vancouver this week as part of the True Colors tour stop there, which I will be covering later today (busy working, I’m sorry about that).

PS: If you’re looking for the Solace rarities that were posted a couple of weeks ago, you might wanna check the message boards

enjoy your day of wonderful Sarah news,
Witchy

Thanks to commenter Joseph who pointed out the following snippet from Terry McBride’s latest blog entry:

“ps- chills at hearing new Sarah McLachlan songs”
source: June 16th blog entry

AHHH???!!! WTF?! New material? New album? I think I’m having a mild heart attack.

I know that the boards still aren’t working, so here’s a few things that popped up today…

Rollingstone’s review of Coachella’s second day included the following (cute) Sarah mention:

As though Creep had taken too much out of him, Prince slipped offstage long enough for one of his backup singers to perform a stirring version of Sarah McLachlan’s “In the Arms of an Angel” that left some attendees teary-eyed.

Too bad not even a music editor can get the name of the song right.

And if you’re interested, I also added a review of Rarities 2 to our articles archive here.

Oh how I love our message board. Today, forum member Matt posted the following:

Fumbling Re-release – Aug 5
I know some one who works at a radio station and this was listed on their call sheet (i think thats what he called it) this morning. Its going to be 2 cds and a dvd. No other info at this time though
Its probably just fte, freedom sessions and the fte live packed into one great cash-n, I mean package.
- matt2778

If this is true, well… weeee! I’m not really one for re-releases (though, as another member pointed out, there’s nothing wrong with digital remastering, depending on the album it can be quite exciting), this makes a lot more sense than the Mirrorball re-release or even Rarities 2.
And to quote even more of our board members, Miguel pointed out that all the re-releasing, Greatest Hits, etc. might just be because of Sarah’s contract ending.

Here it is, the cover for Rarities, B-Sides & Other Stuff Vol. 2 and it’s frakking gorgeous!
Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff Vol. 2

And here’s the final tracklist, thanks to Amazon (you can pre-order the cd there, of course)

1. Ordinary Miracle
2. Blackbird
3. Time After Time (with Cyndi Lauper)
4. River
5. When She Loved Me
6. Don’t Let Go (with Bryan Adams)
7. Just Like Me (with Run DMC)
8. Angel (Live) (with Emmylou Harris)
9. Pills (Live) (with The Perishers)
10. Homeless (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
11. The Rainbow Connection
12. Prayer of St. Francis
13. Unchained Melody
14. Silence (DJ Tiesto ISOS Remix)

Even though it was the right move to include Homeless, I’m still disappointed by the tracklist. Nevermind though, since I am now officially happy about the album, thanks to this wonderful Surfacing-era cover.