kd lang ‘Drag’
A shocking celebration of tobacco-tinged tunes that came in 1997 as a kind of coda to the ‘Ingenue’ period, sharing its lushness but more reclined to the horizontally relaxed. We use
The Air That I Breathe as a regular tester — its opening landscape is dotted with fine detail; we listen for oversoening of the right-channel brushwork, and whether equipment has the resolving power to keep clarity on her layered harmonies over the climactic chorus sections.