Since Pierre Marchand produced Sarah McLachlan's successful album Solace (1991), he has been her right-hand man. The Canadian singer says goodbye to many people on her eighth CD Shine On (2014), but Marchand has stayed. After twenty years, she said goodbye to her record company and management to make a fresh start. The first CD in the new chapter of her successful career is also about the death of
… her father. So there is certainly a break with the past, although McLachlan sounds very familiar. This is largely due to Marchand. Shine On's pleasing singers / songwriter pop could have appeared in any of the four decades McLachlan was active. Now and then there is room for a rock arrangement or for a ballad, but most of it is mid-tempo listening pop. It's nice that the singer mainly does what she is good at and does not lapse into all kinds of desperate experiments. McLachlan and Marchand shine as of old. (JE)more
