HERC was familiar with ms. lang's earlier Canadian cowgirl stuff but when he heard this album playing one night in the record store, he didn't make the connection. The sound was so frickin' mellow, so soothing, so romantic - HERC had to have it. (This album that is.)
The album kicks off with the dreamy shuffle of "Save Me" and then continues with "The Mind Of Love", a yearning, chastising inner dialogue. This album not only plays nice in the bedroom or on a lazy Sunday afternoon, it sounds good out by the water as well. HERC likes to mix it up with Adele's 21 or Bryan Ferry's Taxi, to name but two similar-vibed records.
"Miss Chatelaine", Ingenue's third track, is a slightly more upbeat track as both the tempo and instrumentation are raised considerably. Then the mood simmers down again to that of the two album-opening songs for the next six songs. Not a bad thing if you are trying to set or maintain a certain mood.
The album's closing track was the single "Constant Craving" which went on to win a Grammy the following year. Featuring almost identical instrumentation and tempo as that of "Miss Chatelaine", it is the softly soaring chorus that gives "Constant Craving" its greatest hook. For Valentine's Day 1993, HERC had the song's lyrics printed in the local paper for the very pregnant at the time MRS. HERC.
The hook in "Constant Craving" was so great that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards claim to have unwittingly and subconsciously picked it up when they wrote the song "Anybody Seen My Baby?" for their band's 1997 album Bridges To Babylon. Keef's daughter noticed the similarity before the album's release and the Glimmer Twins gave Lang and her songwriting partner, Ben Mink, an official writing credit.
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