Review: Sarah McLachlan gives the audience a trip toward ecstasy

There are albums that tend to define the years they were released, and Sarah McLachlan’s Fumbling Towards Ecstasy is certainly one of them. Article content

In Canada, at least, where several of the songs were so ubiquitous they felt like they’d been around for decades. Not just Possession and Hold On, but also tracks like Ice Cream and Good Enough, deep cuts that in some ways supplanted the hits. As a country, we were as drenched in Fumbling Towards Ecstasy as we were in Portishead’s debut or any grunge album you might name. Article content Article content

That was in 1993, however. Decades later, how well does it hold up?

McLachlan is currently testing that out as she takes Fumbling out on the road for a 30th anniversary tour across Canada. It’s a series of make-up dates for a tour