Sia - Some People Have Real Problems Era

[K.]

Anybody checked out this girl's new album, yet? I didn't buy her previous one (though I liked the clips) but this one is intriguing me. She sounds like the secret lovechild of Pink, Fiona Apple and Regina Spektor.

1. Little Black Sandals
2. Lentil
3. Day Too Soon
4. You Have Been Loved
5. The Girl You Lost to Cocaine
6. Academia
7. I Go to Sleep
8. Playground
9. Death By Chocolate
10. Soon We'll Be Found
11. Electric Bird
12. Beautiful Calm Driving
13. Lullaby

You can listen to the whole thing temporarily at AOL: spinner.aol.com/artists/new-releases-full-cds?defaultTab=2

[WotUNeed]

I have a good friend who is a huge Sia and Zero 7 fan. He's pretty much my exposure to her.

I haven't quite caught his Sia fever, but she is good.

I haven't heard much from this album, but I absolutely had to check out what she did with "I Go to Sleep," because I love the version by The Pretenders. I think Sia did a great job with it, too, so kudos to her. Her vocal style is comparable to Chrissie Hynde's, in my opinion.

[Active Aggressive]

I just purchased it after hearing the clips on I-Tunes this morning. I love her first album and I saw her live and she is 10 times better live than on CD! I can't wait to listen to this one all the way through!

[reception]

Reviewed by Elysa Gardner
USA Today

Sia, Some People Have Real Problems: * * * (out of four) -- Built for comfort

Don’t let the title deceive you: Sometime Zero 7 vocalist Sia Furler’s latest solo album is anything but an anxiety trip. The Australian singer, whose 2005 single Breathe Me became an iTunes hit after being featured in the finale of Six Feet Under, has a warm, caressing voice suited to gently rootsy ballads. There are bluesy flourishes and more upbeat excursions such as the winking Playground, but the overall effect is comforting without being staid.

[Active Aggressive]

This album is amazing and it reveals its greatness with each listen.

[K.]

Electric Bird is being offered for free at music.download.com

[eljefro]

It's not as good as her last solo album...but Buttons is hot. So is the The Girl You Lost and Day Too Soon...

[MusicMan88]

^^I think it TRUMPS her last solo album. Amazing. Her personality comes through the music and lyrics, and she actually belts out the tracks rather than singing them in the whispery voice that people were starting to associate with her.

[Active Aggressive]

She still sings like she has marbles in her mouth which she doesn't do live...it must be for effect. In concert, she is a revelation. I still greatly appreciate and enjoy her records. This new album is something special, better than her first by far. On her first, I was stuck on Breathe Me (especially the Four Tet remix), Where I Belong, Rewrite, Sunday, Don't Bring Me Down and especially Broken Biscuit. I like everything on this album but I Go to Sleep, Day Too Soon, Little Black Sandals and Lentil kill me - the delivery, her phrasing...remarkable.

[Break The Ice]

ive heard Breathe Me before, but i didnt realize she sang it!

and i love Zero 7's "Waiting Line".. so i will check some of her stuff out!

[areyoureadytojump]

Billboard.com for the 1/26/07 chart:

The biggest debut is singer Sia's "Some People Have Real Problems" from Starbucks' Hear Music label at No. 26 with 20,000, the artist's first charting album on The Billboard 200.

[eljefro]

I love almost all her stuff with Zero 7....I don't I just loved every song on her last album but this one is just ok for me. I am glad she did well on the BB200 though....

[MusicMan88]

Oh my! Congrats to her!

[areyoureadytojump]

2/9 chart:

26 47 64 SIA SOME PEOPLE HAVE REAL PROBLEMS 10,031 -21% 12,710 42,905

[areyoureadytojump]

3/15 chart:

181 SIA SOME PEOPLE HAVE REAL PROBLEMS 4,111 5,801 -29% 74,972