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Alanis Morissette will release So-Called Chaos in late February. She is currently putting the finishing touches on the album, the follow-up to last year's Under Rug Swept, with longtime collaborator Tim Thorney and John Shanks (Michelle Branch) in a Santa Monica recording studio owned by Jackson Browne.

"I started writing on and off this summer very reticently," she says. "I wrote a couple of songs, ventured away from the studio, then ventured back in. By the fall I realized I had enough songs that could make a record."

The album's title comes from a song of the same name that is one of Morissette's most adventurous. It begins a detached, looping vocal, and builds into a high-energy chorus in which Morissette sings, "I want to be naked running through the streets/I want to invite this so-called chaos that you think I dare not be," and then climaxes with a wall of distortion.

The experimental nature of "Chaos" is echoed elsewhere throughout the album: Morissette plays around with dance loops, as well as her love for Indian music ("Knees of my Bees" employs a sitar). "My records inform me about where I'm at," she says.

So where does she find herself on So-Called Chaos? "I don't consider myself to be a piano artist, a loop artist, or a hip-hop artist. I don't know what I am . . . and that shows."

full article at Rolling Stone

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