k.d. lang kicked off her cowboy boots and donned black satin pumps for this stunning collection. Smoky and obsessive, Ingenue is contemporary torch music with a stalker's edge. Lang's voice has always been a thing of magic. Warm, elastic, and powerful enough to knock you over, it can reveal ocean-deep longing or hide the breaking edge of fear. On this uniformly gorgeous album, she lets loose but with calculated abandon. Whether it's the haunting pulse of "Season of Hollow Soul," the torch pop of "The Mind of Love," or crackling darkness of "Outside Myself," lang reveals subtle shades of desire, the harrowing edge of sanity, and a cavern full of soul. There's little of the androgynous cow-punk of old, leaving instead a mature chanteuse, in glorious expression of the many complexities of the heart.