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Stripy Sexy Songstress.

Sia Furler is a one woman musical movement – hailing from Australia and best known in the UK for her incredible vocal work on Zero 7′s *seminal* album ‘Simple Things’ (must dig that out – completely amazing stuff) Shes been on everyones radars for ages I KNOW but is about to explode all over your faces all over again. If she doesn’t with the April 2010 release of her new album then there is no hope for good music – you need to give this woman your love people please thankyou.

I saw her perform a couple of years ago in glorious Bristol, and she immediately earned herself a place in my greatest gigs ever pantheon.  The gig was onboard Thekla, a ship-cum-venue moored in Bristol docks – and this woman has a voice that seemed to make the very fabric of the ship reverberate – amazing power and control.  Most of all though she was a fantastic showwoman, with a great repartee with the audience – effortlessly odd and sublimely funny in between tracks, then laser beaming straight between your eyes with raw emotion when singing.

Her first solo album ‘Colour the small one’ is one of my favourite downtempo albums – a stunning, soaring and hugely deep piece of work (a good album to gift to people in emotional crisis, and to self-administer when crises come knocking on ones own door)  Her second album ‘Some people have real problems’ was in some ways far more upbeat and included a particularly lovely collaboration with Beck.  Whilst her 2nd offering didnt have the innate resonance of the first, it still demonstrated how damn fucking talented this woman is.

So – the point of this post isn’t just to be crazily sycophantic – Sias third album ‘We are born’ is COMING. And this below ladies and gents is the first song and video from it… see what you think eh?

liked that? download it here (not my link – its from the New York Times… http://www.zshare.net/audio/686504271b8b8938/)

Also from her back catalogue try these nuggets of loveliness:

From ‘Colour the small one’

-Breathe me (my favourite – literally gorgeous track)

-Numb (another good one – goddamnit – the woman is great – just buy the whole album?!)

From ‘Some people have real problems’

-Lentil (great to learn and wail along to)

-Day too soon (bah – ALSO AMAZING)

-The Girl (sublime live – utterly SUBLIME)

Honourable mentions to Academia, I go to sleep – oh god, I go to sleep is stunning.

JUST BUY BOTH ALBUMS PEOPLE.

This woman should be bigger – and if that weren’t enough to get you clicking the *buy* button, the woman also tweeted in october that she was at BETTE MIDLERS HALLOWEEN PARTY – if Bette likes the woman, why the hell shouldn’t you. (and Christina Aguilera has also been working on stuff with her – I hate Xtina, but I rest my case – Sia is kind to the animals.)