Sia Kate Isobelle Furler was born on 18 December 1975 in Adelaide, South Australia, and started her career as a singer in the acid jazz band Crisp in the mid-1990's, releasing one album and an EP. When Crisp disbanded in 1997, she released her debut studio album, 'OnlySee', in Australia, marketed under her full name of Sia Furler, and coming out on Flavoured Records. The album only sold about 1,200 copies, and shortly afterwards she moved to London, where she performed as a background vocalist for British band Jamiroquai, as well as providing vocals for English downtempo group Zero 7 on their first three studio albums, and also touring with the group. In 2000 she signed a recording contract with Sony Music's sub-label Dance Pool, and released her first single, 'Taken For Granted', which peaked at No. 10 on the UK Singles Chart, and in 2001 she released her second solo album 'Healing Is Difficult', which blends retro jazz and soul music and lyrically discusses Sia's dealing with the death of her first love affair. Displeased with the promotion of the album, she fired her manager, left Sony Music and signed with Go! Beat, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group (UMG), releasing her third studio album 'Colour The Small One' in 2004. This album employs a mixture of acoustic instruments and electronic backing to her material, and it spawned four singles, including 'Don't Bring Me Down' and 'Breathe Me', the latter of which charted in the United Kingdom, Denmark and France. Following this breakthrough her career took off, and hit singles and gold albums followed, but as often happens with artists that seem to emerge fully formed from nowhere, she'd paid her dues in her home country, and so for fans who might not have realised that 'Healing Is Difficult' was actually her second solo album, here is her first. It might not be what you are used to from the singer, but they all have to start somewhere, and moving on from the acid-jazz of Crisp, to my ears this 1997 offering contains some superb trip-hop, reminiscent of early Portishead or Massive Attack.
Track listing
01 Don't Get Me Started
02 I Don't Want To Want You
03 Onlysee
04 Stories
05 Madlove
06 A Situation
07 Shadow
08 Asrep Onosim
09 Take It To Heart
10 Beautiful Reality
11 Soon
12 One More Shot
13 Tripoutro
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