k.d. lang is back in the British Isles to close out her European Watershed tour with a string of dates that began last night in Oxford and continue from tonight in Sheffield through Dublin, Ireland, on Monday to the last stop, Brighton, a week later. The UK press is covering the event, with the Guardian featuring an extensive interview with k.d. In discussing k.d.'s long-running success in an often fickle business, writer Emine Saner offers: "First and always foremost, there was her voice, as pure and wide and open as Canadian skies." You can read the article at music.guardian.co.uk.

Metro UK also previews the tour, with writer Mike Butler opening with this:

Once in a generation there comes a singer who thrives as a strong, independent woman in a man's world. Not only that, but Kathryn Dawn Lang can tackle country, torch song, and singer-songwriter confessionals in a warm, swoon-inducing voice.

Butler calls Watershed "a celebration of desire" and sees similarities with another iconic performer:

Few singers have approached this level of sensitivity apart, perhaps, from Dusty Springfield on her classic Dusty in Memphis LP, where the singer's firepower was subsumed by subtle, nuanced emotion. Watershed tells of a place where there's no hard outside, only soft inside, and the usual emotional defences are all removed. It's the natural habitat of the diva, and lang certainly makes for a stunning one.

In the end, he describes the album as the culmination of the many genres in which k.d. has performed over the years, "unified by that alluring, soft voice: lovely beyond reason ..."

To read the complete article, visit metro.co.uk.