All You Can Eat (k.d. lang album)

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All You Can Eat
K.d. lang - All You Can Eat.jpg
Studio album by
k.d. lang
ReleasedOctober 10, 1995 (1995-10-10)
Genre Pop
Length36:09
Label Warner Bros.
Producer
k.d. lang chronology
Ingénue
(1992)		All You Can Eat
(1995)		 Drag
(1997)

All You Can Eat is the third solo album by Canadian singer k.d. lang, released in October 1995.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Cash Box (favorable) [2]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau-neither.png [4]
Entertainment Weekly A [5]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
NME 7/10 [7]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Spin 7/10 [7]

In a Rolling Stone review, Barry Walters wrote "The rhythms and sonic textures draw from the vintage soul of Al Green, while the stark arrangements and lush melodies embrace the primal sophistication of trend-bucking college-radio faves like Björk and [[[PJ Harvey|PJ] Harvey]] without evoking either. By holding back on vocal volume and letting her creativity loose, Kathryn Dawn ultimately expresses much more. Traditional torch and twang gave her something to master and rebel against, but sublimely sensual art pop has set lang free." [9]

David Browne of Entertainment Weekly described the album as "Ten meditations on unrequited desire, courtship, rejection, and sex, All You Can Eat is both the most brazen and conventional album she’s ever made, and one of her best. With each new album, lang has gradually toned down the often cloying cowpunk giddiness of her early work. That course continues with Eat, a sober album that musically and lyrically picks up where Ingénue‘s hit 'Constant Craving' left off. The songs are a series of pleas to a lover to allow our tortured chanteuse into her life, each one highlighting varying degrees of optimism, confusion, and bleakness." [10]

In an AllMusic review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine called it "a more experimental and realized record than its predecessor Ingénue ." [11]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by k.d. lang and Ben Mink

  1. "If I Were You" – 3:59
  2. "Maybe" – 4:11
  3. "You're Ok" – 3:03
  4. "Sexuality" – 3:24
  5. "Get Some" – 3:37
  6. "Acquiesce" – 3:33
  7. "This" – 4:02
  8. "World of Love" – 3:44
  9. "Infinite and Unforeseen" – 2:57
  10. "I Want It All" – 3:39

Personnel

In other media

The song "Sexuality" was also released on Friends Original TV Soundtrack.

Charts

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