Alanis Morissette’s first studio album in four years, Flavors Of Entanglement — on which she worked with British producer Guy Sigsworth — hits retail and online stores today. Most reviews are echoing each other in saying, quite simply, it’s the best thing she’s done since Jagged Little Pill. Perhaps it’s because Alanis (seen above performing at the “Rock in Rio” music festival in Lisbon last month) creates her best when she’s been scorned?
The 34-year-old singer talked to the Los Angeles Times about the emotions that fueled the making of the album: “I think it’s the straw that breaks the camel’s back. It’s having had too many of them. And I was a full-blown love addict, so it was like, ‘I can’t keep doing this, my body can’t take it.’ Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it’s debilitating.
“I’ve been on a constant journey toward finally surrendering and hitting the rock bottom that I’ve been avoiding my whole life. . . . So this was a huge, critical juncture for me. Everything broke, and it was an amazing and horrifying time.”
I can see how you’d be pretty bummed if Ryan Reynolds was the one that got away.
It’s worth noting that Alanis also seems to have gotten a bit more electronic on this album, though the results are a bit more Björk than Kylie.
New singles from The Cure (“All Kinds Of Stuff”), Jennifer Hudson (“Spotlight”), Peter Gabriel (“Down To Earth”) and Robin Thicke (“Magic”).
Martha Wainwright’s second album, I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too, which features a cover of the Eurythmics’ “Love Is A Stranger.”
Wallflowers’ frontman Jakob Dylan’s solo album, Seeing Things, produced by Rick Rubin.
Keeping with the “seeing” theme, N.E.R.D.’s third set, Seeing Sounds, is also out.
Evil Urges, the fifth album from My Morning Jacket.
The U.S. release of Supergrass’ Diamond Hoo Ha, which has been out in Europe for several months.