Track Listing

1. Bound By The Beauty
2. Something About Trains
3. Hockey
4. Everything Reminds Me Of My Dog
5. The Valley
6. The Life Is The Red Wagon
7. Half Angel Half Eagle
8. La Jalouse
9. Miss Punta Blanca
10. Are We Dancing Now? (Map III)

Product Details

• Released on: 1989-08-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

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Bound by the Beauty seems like a retreat to simplicity after the growing complexity of Jane Siberry's earlier work. The artiness--sometimes self-conscious, sometimes not--has been stripped away to let the songs breathe, and it's more playful than anything that came before. The track "Hockey," her homage to the national sport, also makes it her most Canadian album. "Something About Trains" captures the enduring allure of the train whistle both in words and in slide guitar. Siberry's lyrics continue to have a raw, stream-of-consciousness quality--check the funny "Everything Reminds Me of My Dog," for example. A record that takes in both city and countryside, Bound by the Beauty manages to stand slightly in awe of all life's little and big mysteries, while Siberry laughs at herself. --Chris Nickson