Afterglow (Sarah McLachlan album)

Afterglow
Studio album by
Released4 November 2003 (2003-11-04)
RecordedAugust 2002 – 2003
GenrePop
Length40:11
Label
ProducerPierre Marchand
Sarah McLachlan chronology
Remixed
(2001)
Afterglow
(2003)
Afterglow Live
(2004)
Singles from Afterglow
  1. "Fallen"
    Released: 22 September 2003
  2. "Stupid"
    Released: 31 May 2004
  3. "World on Fire"
    Released: 14 June 2004
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic55/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Blender[3]
E! OnlineB−[4]
Entertainment WeeklyB−[5]
Mojo[4]
Q Magazine[4]
Rolling Stone[6]
Slant Magazine [7]
Stylus Magazine(F)[8]

Afterglow is the fifth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan. Released on 4 November 2003, on Nettwerk in Canada and 4 November 2003, on Arista Records in the United States, it was her first album of new material in six years, after the success of Surfacing and the Lilith Fair festival.

Unlike past albums where she went to an isolated cottage to write the songs, she wrote the songs for Afterglow in her family home mainly before the birth of her child. She wrote the songs entirely on the piano, which was also a departure from her previous albums which she wrote on guitar. Longtime collaborator Pierre Marchand produced the album. McLachlan wrote eight of the 10 songs herself and co-wrote the other two with Marchand.

The song "Answer" was featured in the 2007 movie The Brave One. It has also been used in television commercials for the ASPCA, with McLachlan appearing in person.

  1. ^ "Afterglow reviews". CBS Interactive. 4 November 2003. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  2. ^ Thomas Erlewine, Stephen. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  3. ^ Blender review[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ a b c "Afterglow by Sarah McLachlan" – via www.metacritic.com.
  5. ^ Browne, David (17 March 2020). "Entertainment Weekly Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  6. ^ Lechner, Ernesto (3 November 2003). "Rolling Stone review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 27 November 2007. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  7. ^ Cinquemani, Sal (28 October 2003). "Review: Sarah McLachlan, Afterglow". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Stylus Magazine". stylusmagazine.com. Archived from the original on 7 May 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2020.

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