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What the Sea Wants the Sea Will Have

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Not Sarah Blasko best CD from front to back but some of her best songs are on this disk.

My first experience of Sarah Blasko was live, at the Melbourne "Make Poverty History" concert in Melbourne, November 2006. Bono and Pearl Jam opened the show, and then Sarah (if I may call her that) wandered onto the stage.
She did 5 or 6 songs, and I couldn't wait to get to a store and buy this album. I love it, and I think most people will.
Her style is original, though she reminds me at times of Nico, and perhaps even Dido...with a touch of Bjork maybe. But still, original!
As impressive as her singing is her songwriting - strong, relevant stories set to evocative and superbly arranged music.
She really is quite a talent, and it's early days yet. Buying this album (her second) gets in you in close to the Ground Floor of her musical career, and I think it will be an interesting ride.
At this stage she seems more comfortable as a boutique artist - small venues, intimate shows. I wonder where she will take herself and her music in the longer term.
But enough of that.....for now, we have a wonderful album, produced to perfection and beautifully presented.
This is an album for a wide variety of musical tastes, and I recommend it especially for people who want something different, who are looking for someone who is emerging, and who are hoping for someone who has something strong to say.
And after all, she has already had Bono and Pearl Jam as her opening act - quite an achievement.

This album is both energising and relaxing, and repays listening to over and over and over. This review is not designed to be a profound technical analysis of the music or anything. Given my listening experience with this album though I was just really surprised that the average review was languishing down at 3 1/2 stars and I wanted to record my vote that I thought it was much better value than that.

what is goin' on here ????
people panning this amaaazing album.
this picks up from 'overture' before it.
the songs are smarter deeper ... our girl's maturing.
the first we heard of this was [explain] & wow ...
what a beautifully tender heart-invading song.
her wings are spreading here folks ... come for the ride.
if you're not sure after first listen ... take another.
i'm sure this album will become a fave ... very quickly.
try getting 'hammer' out of your head after hearing it.
i just saw her perform it live a week ago tonite in a
little victorian town called 'castlemaine' & if you get
a chance to see this girl live ... do it.
i was lucky enough to meet her backstage after the gig,
& she was the sweet sweet generous girl i hoped she'd be.
don't you love it when your heroes DON'T let you down ?
i could go through all these songs for you ... reviewing each one,
but i reckon just go buy the bloody thing.
drive along a beachside road listening to 'queen of apology'.
i was lucky enough to be listening to it on a speeding train,
& the song just carried me away ... this album kills me.
please get it NOW NOW NOW.
& if you haven't yet ... grab her first album 'overture & the underscore'
& then grab her newby 'as day follows night'.
it's all good & someday this girl will get her day on top.
i follow her journey with open ears & a keen eye.

I really love Sarah Blasko's voice. Some of the songs on her first CD are really cool, edgy, and atmospheric. I also love her sweet, heart-rending version of "Dont Dream it's Over" from the Commonwealth Games, which can be seen on You Tube. So, I was eager to hear something new and creative from her.

However, it seems that whoever has had direct influence and direction over her in the music industry and studio is doing her a disservice. Her new "band" does nothing to enhance her music, and the songs on this new CD are bland and dreary, almost void of anything creative or interesting. They just move on horizontally from start to finish, with no progressive elements at all. I really agree with the reviewer Steven Guy. The lyrics are very self-absorbed and the music lethargic, like she, herself, is disinterested in them.

I don't understand how this CD could be selling well in Australia or anywhere. Just off the top of my head, I think she could be benefited by the influence of people like Sarah McGlaughlin, Peter Gabriel, or Alison Sudol/A Fine Frenzy.

After Sarah Blasko's rather promising, stylish and colourful debut album, I have listened, with some interest, to this current album for some time. Or, rather, I have been forced to hear it in my work place because someone keeps playing it. I have heard this album many times more than I would ever want to hear it and I would like to take the opportunity here to warn the one or two people who actually read my reviews and/or respect anything I say (probably even fewer people!) to consider what I have to say about this album.

In the fewest words possible, I have to say that this album does not please me.

It seems that Ms Blasko has gone down the same path as Missy Higgins and given us yet another album of "whinger-woman" music. The songs seems to be largely 'complaining songs' - no, not like those of Schubert or Mahler! What we have are songs, with lyrics presumably composed during severe bout of PMS or something like that. However, the delivery of these songs is lazy, lethargic and somewhat maudlin at times. Sarah Blasko manages to sound disinterested in her own material, too, much the time.

So, essentially, we have a 'Claytons' Norah Jones' album here, with all that that implies.

A dreary, dreary and colourless album. I hope Ms Blasko gets the 'Higgins' out of her system next time.

The best thing I can say about this current album is that at least it isn't as ignominiously pretentious, relentlessly unmemorable and as unimportant as Katie Noonan's solo album.