00-sia-healing_is_difficult-2002-iro.nfo
album: Healing Is Difficult
genre: Jazz
rip date: 05/16/2005
rel date: 05/28/2002
# tracks: 12
size: 80,8 MB
time: 64:59 min
ripper: PushiTooL
encoder: Lame 3.90.3
quality: --alt-preset standard (VBR)
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7yd5vwmla9rk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/urban/reviews/sia_healing.shtml
Even though Zero 7 have enlisted the abilities of the
Australian born vocalist and writer, there is a bigger
and better reason to be excited about Sia Furler,
namely her debut album Healing Is Difficult. This
combination of R&B, two step and jazz flavours
provides a backdrop for one of the most exciting
voices to have emerged in recent years.
Prior to the album's release "Taken For Granted"
crashed the charts last year at number 10 and "Little
Man" had the overhaul from UK garage star Wookie and
sold 10,000 white labels to the dance music
underground. With the full showcase now available, Sia
has pulled a handbrake turn and skidded neatly in to
the space marked 'this year's diva'.
The title of this album is not without good reason as
Sia's past has been a trying one with the tragic loss
of a partner and subsequent grieving providing the
basis and catalyst for much of the writing. From the
outset we are exposed to a brutal honesty as the
opening track, "Fear" confesses, 'And sometimes I
worry my boyfriend will die, my first love is already
dead. You see fear is only holding us back'.
Complementary to this, the hip hop beats of "Taken For
Granted" have been layered over Prokofiev's 'Romeo and
Juliet' - whether this choice reflects a darker irony
and further mediatation on the subject only adds to
the track's mystique and appeal. However bold, her
sensitivity never descends to self-depreciation or
pity, in fact, it is tempered with a well developed
sense of humour - a natural extension of her playful
nature. By way of an illustration, she arrived on
stage to perform "Destiny" at the recent Zero 7 show
to a rapturous applause, took the mic and in the
thickest of Australian twangs exclaimed, 'I probably
shouldn't talk, should I? It'll spoil the illusion!'
Mindset aside, it is the delivery that singles Sia
out. Her range and versatility across the album mark
her as being both natural and at ease in a jazz mode,
"Drink To Get Drunk", as well as down tempo in the
seductive R&B ballad "Blow It All Away". That said,
the soaring vocal power on the exceptional "Judge Me"
proves she can belt it out with the best of them.
Sexy, soulful and masterful, she is without question a
kick ass singer! It's not really a question of drawing
parallels with other vocalists rather that in years to
come it is others that will be compared to her. The
road has been long with too many winding turns to
mention but Sia is finally here. Intelligent, moving
and funny which begs the question, 'What does the girl
do for an encore?'. Do not deprive yourself of this
little gem. - Andy Puleston
01 Fear 05:11
02 Drink To Get Drunk 04:41
03 Taken For Granted 04:35
04 Blow It All Away 04:40
05 Get Me 03:14
06 I'm Not Important To You 06:09
07 Sober And Unkissed 04:01
08 Healing Is Difficult 05:24
09 Judge Me 04:15
10 Little Man 06:05
11 Insidiously 08:50
12 Drink To Get Drunk (Different Gear Mix) 07:54
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