Surfacing
was released as the first
Lilith Fair
tour hit the road, and
Sarah McLachlan
benefited enormously from the timing. As the organizer of
,
McLachlan
was on the cover of magazines across America and Canada, which helped
debut at number two on the U.S. charts -- a particularly remarkable feat since its predecessor,
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
, peaked at number 50. Although
didn't offer anything new from
and wasn't a particularly strong consolidation of her talents, it certainly wasn't a bad record and featured several fine songs, including the single
"Building a Mystery."
~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine