Alanis Morisette releasing first album in 4 years

Alanis Morissette is putting the finishing
touches on her first album of new material in four years, which will
come out next spring.
“Flavors
of Entanglement,” which she hopes to whittle down to 11 tracks in the
following weeks, includes “Not As We,” which features only piano and
vocals, and “Moratorium,” which is “essentially a song about my
readiness to stop repeating bad patterns. I’ve kicked some of those in
my life,” she said.
Thematically,
the album explores Morissette’s personal struggles over the last few
years. (Earlier this year, it was announced that Morissette and fiance
Ryan Reynolds had broken up.)“Really, in the end, the personal struggles
are political. Our emotions align themselves with larger symptomatic
things in the world,” Morissette said. “We face a large war out there,
but (the album) more closely reflects the war in peoples’ living
rooms... the icy silence at home, versus the big cold war.”
The
set balances world- and folk-influenced tracks against the experimental
pop leanings of producer Guy Sigsworth (Bjork, Madonna).
Morissette,
33, envisioned an album that pulled in her various musical interests,
“a combination of everything” from organic instruments to hip-hop
beats. Plus, “it’s the first time since I was 16 I’ve had a boy back-up
sing on one of my album. I’m finally giving them a chance,” she said.
“Flavors
of Entanglement” is the follow-up to 2004’s ”So-Called Chaos,” which
was a commercial disappointment. In 2005, she released an acoustic
version of her 1995 breakthrough ”Jagged Little Pill.”
Morissette will road-test the material as the opening act for the Matchbox Twenty tour that begins Jan. 25 in Hollywood, Fla.


I Used to LOVE her music