Press Release 10/10/07
k.d. lang's new album, Watershed, will be released by Nonesuch Records on January 28, 2008.  Watershed comprises 11 new songs written and produced by k.d., and recorded in California this year. 

Watershed is the first album of newly written material from the four-time Grammy winner since 2000's Invincible Summer, and her first studio album since 2004's acclaimed Canadian songbook, Hymns Of The 49th Parallel.  It is also the first self-produced collection of her celebrated 25-year career. 

An itinerary of international tour dates to follow the album's release will be announced shortly. (see tour section on kdlang.com)

k.d. says
She's very excited and proud about it and it's a big piece of  her that she's sending out to the world. She writes melodies first then lyrics. She took things from conception and kept embellishing the songs until she thought they were finished. Wide ranging performances and very first vocals on some of the songs.
There are highly arranged string arrangements on some of the songs (by Teddy) The songs were written over 6 years. She really likes I dream of Spring ( a beautiful song)and jealous Dog because it's so quirky, just a performance she did one morning so it's pretty raw (another Hooked on Junk? haha)

From a recent interview:
Lang's new album, Watershed, signals a change of heart and shift in priorities.
The album's centrepiece, Shadow and the Frame, is a peaceful meditation about her journey inward.
“I found myself and what I became, having nowhere else to lay the blame,'' she sings.
“The darker side of me and my discovery. The shadow and the frame are, indeed, the same.
“Does a taste for truth disappear with youth? Are my efforts all wasted . . . fading on the vine?''
Watershed, Lang says, is about change.
“A change in me, a change in direction - emotionally - and a change in priorities,'' she says.
“I have changed a great deal since my 40th birthday. I had a lot of personnel changes in my professional life.
“It's a culmination of those things that led me to the album title.''

Watershed is disarmingly simple. Lang, who also produced the album, often swoons about lessons learned over moody keys or sparse rhythms.
“I wanted to retain a lot of the initial creative moments that are hard to capture again,'' she says.
“After the songwriting process and original demo, you usually take the song to a producer and work it up with a band. Then it becomes something different.
“But, to me, the real creative magic is in the early stages of conception. A lot of the performances on this album are early takes, or sometimes the very first take.
“It became a matter of what feels right - what has an essence, what has honesty and emotion to it.''

k.d. has been singing one track entitled "I Dream of Spring" "which exemplifies the long wait for the thaw" (Cold Dark Places)
from the new album at her recent shows. Other songs previewed have been  "Fueled by Desire" and "Coming Home" (very country) "Once in a While"
The album reportedly opens with the track I Dream Of Spring, in which Lang sings about “the streets of Melbourne”.