And now, almost four ye ars aft er her l ast album, Ke r en Ann is back with 101. Hiding out on the 101st flo or, she lo oks down on the fragments of her life and spins new stori es. Each song is a window into a world, like the windows of the apar tment building opposi te James Stewar t’s in Rear Window.


E ach p i c t ur e , li t b y a dif f e r e n t lig h t, is a pa in t ing come to lif e, a pa in t ing in sound and w o r ds, t e l ling a st o r y .


Through one window watch a man and a woman enter a room. They ’ ve be en out and are perhaps a lit tl e drunk. “My Name Is Troubl e” she te lls him right from the star t .


She wi ll obsess and possess him and love him to death. But caught in a moment when she turns away to the shadows, we see the expression on her face, the fear of emptiness that drives her, the vulnerabi lity behind the bravado. She has a mysterious past .


Ne xt do or, a woman pl ay s an old


r e cord and le a fs slowly through a photog r aph album, a ghost of a smile on her face. She runs her f ingers ov er one of the photog r aphs. S h e ’ s r ememb e r i ng something, a broken love af f air perhaps. Life has gone on, and she’s not unhappy, but just for a moment, she fe els, how fine it would be to do it all ov e r again. She can hear the noise from the pa r t y


apa r tment be low. It lo oks like an Andy Warhol


in the luxury bas ement g athering, with “All


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