Sitting in what appears to be a woven wicker swinging chair, completely surrounded by plants, Sarah McLachlan is telling me about her first album in more than a decade.

“I’d been writing the whole time, but 11 years creeped up on me,” McLachlan, 57, says in a Zoom call from her West Vancouver home.

“The longer you’re out of the game, the harder it is to get back into it. Especially knowing the work it takes — the promotional stuff, leaving home, leaving all the creature comforts. At this age, you’re kind of like, ‘I really want to be home,’” she says with a laugh.

But as Bob Dylan says in “Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie,” McLachlan got that ol’ poet’s feeling. Something on yer mind you wanna be saying/That somebody someplace oughta be hearin’.

So, the three-time Grammy winner left th

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