Telling Stories is Chapman's first album in over four years. With this collection she has gone back to the spare, unsentimental feel of her early work, recapturing some of the urgency and simple melody lines that made her 1988 self-titled debut such a classic. There's maturity here, and strong sense of spiritual metaphor. On "Unsung Psalm", for instance, she imagines her funeral, singing: "I'd have a halo and flowing white robes / If I live right", while "Wedding Song" … mehrhas the devotional line: "I reach out for your hand / For you I'd don a veil". The musical arrangements, too, are pared-down, with ghostly bluegrass banjo, silvery fiddle and guitar woven into subtle drum loops. Though not as immediate as her debut, it's Chapman's most focused work in a long time. --Lucy O'Brien weniger
1 - Telling Stories
2 - Less Than Strangers
3 - Speak The Word
4 - It's OK
5 - Wedding Song… mehr
6 - Unsung Psalm
7 - Nothing Yet
8 - Paper And Ink
9 - Devotion
10 - Only One
11 - First Try weniger