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Alanis Morissette
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
(Maverick)
Having toughed up with trialthon training and visits into India, Alanis Morissette has matured both lyrically and musically from the young woman who hit Madison's Club DeWash on her first day of the Jagged Little Pill tour. She remains the whirling wordsmith of personal catastrophes on her new, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, but it is as if she has taken on her commercial success and swallowed it whole, spitting back a sprawling seventeen tracks clocking in at seventy-one roving minutes. There's old style Alanis with her sour moods and scratchy guitars, but up pops symphony orchestras and genuine hip hop moments. With guru banshee mantras, Zen inspired Zeppelin, white folk alternative and a dash of Stevie Wonder mid- 70's funk, restless experiments translate a flood of words and chattering rhythms into an exploration which is bold, ambitious and inventive. A voice true to herself, centered and sincere, Alanis has resurfaced still full of eager energy and self-examined curiosity, raging between outspoken claims, poetic delusions, plainspoken rattlings and pertinent facts.
John Noyd
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