The brand new album by the Canadian bred, Scotland-dwelling, songstress, Sarah Jane Scouten, Turned to Gold, offers an earnest embrace, not merely because if the quality of its ten songs, but also because of the emphatic emotion Scouten invests in each of the offerings.

One of the major themes running through the singer’s new album is the importance of connections, whether that be to family members, childhood friends, or partners who make moving halfway across the world seem worth it.

1. Wanderlust
2. The Great Unknown
3. Wilder When I Was With You
4. My Heart Ain’t Broken
5. Dragonheart
6. Turned To Gold
7. Crocodile Tears
8. Rose and Carnations
9. Is it Just the Whisky Talking?
10. Little Band of Gold

This beautifully reflective collection of songs opens on the flourishing Wanderlust and the melodic introspective The Great Unknown, and they are followed by the impassioned Wilder When I Was With You, the languishing My Heart Ain’t Broken, before the upbeat romp of Dragonheart is brought forth.

The shimmering title cut Turned to Gold (which finds the singer processing the death of her biological mother) is up next and is itself backed by the countrified twang within Crocodile Tears, the balladry storytelling found within Rose and Carnations, the album rounding out on the piano ballad Is it Just the Whisky Talking?, coming to a close on the veritably ethereal Little Band of Gold.

Sarah Jane Scouten - Wanderlust (Documentary)

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