Colour The Small One
- Sia
- Band Name: Sia
- Record Label: Astralwerks / Go Beat
- Release Date: Jan 10, 2006
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100An album that is as lovely as it is seductive.
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The songs feel and sound organic and have an eerily timeless quality in their emotional universality. [#12, p.93]
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90Seductive, lovely and OK to like. [Mar 2006, p.116]
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9070 minutes to savor, to let the words run through you, to let the melodies wrap around you.
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80Rather than mimicking and rehashing "Simple Things", she's found a warmth and depth of feeling that makes "Colour The Small One" the logical progression.
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80Dido should keep checking over her shoulder. [Feb 2004, p.105]
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Halfway through, her sweet nothings become soothing almost to the point of somnolence. [27 Jan 2006, p.84]
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73Perhaps unsurprisingly, the heavy emotional inspiration behind Sia's trebly moans drags on over the course of 50 minutes.
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70This could be the soundtrack to some of the new year's mopiest moments.
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Repeat listens reveal the album to be what the one-time Zero 7 vocalist describes as a "slow burner," a druggy mesh of acoustic guitars, keyboards, and lush, cinematic string arrangements.
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70Sia's songs are quiet, intimate and melodic. [21 Jan 2006]
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67These pop dirges are comforting until they get preachy about sins and healing. [Jan 2005, p.91]
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60If her murmurous slurring defies full comprehension, her gentle sadness, hesitant beats and melancholic piano settings match the odd clear phrase. [Mar 2004, p.102]
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She sounded more like a star when she cameoed in Zero 7 than she does on most of her own album.
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Sia's voice can be affected, and when the songwriting sags and the production becomes more generic toward the middle of the album, she struggles to keep the listener's attention.