"A Foreign Sound" is Caetano Veloso's first album sung entirely in English, and it finds the Brazilian artist revisiting 22 moments in America's songwriting history. But this is not simply a collection of stage and screen standards. It goes much further than that. Sure, Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers ("Manhattan"), Cole Porter ("So in Love") and Irving Berlin ("Always"), among others, are very present here. So, too, are Kurt Cobain ("Come As You Are"), David Byrne ("[Nothing But] Flowers") and Stevie Wonder ("If It's Magic"). Depending on the track, Veloso is either backed by a 28-piece orchestra, accompanied by an acoustic guitar or simply singing a cappella. In a timely yet daring move, Veloso does not change the gender in George & Ira Gershwin's "The Man I Love." As for the album's title, which references Bob Dylan's "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)," there is absolutely nothing foreign about this wonderfully rich, subtle and adventurous disc.