Yahoo! Music Review

Released on 21/04/08
Label: Monkey Puzzle

Or to give the song its full title, "The Girl You Lost To Cocaine". For those yet to have had their hair ruffled by the gale force of her industrial strength vocal, Sia is the Australian version of the pop singer the Swedes call Robyn and the Americans call Pink. You know the look - Amazonian, blonde - and you're definitely familiar with the voice - reinforced with steel, able to strip tarmac at twenty paces. All you need now, you're probably thinking, is the USP.

Well, um…did we mention she's Australian? Truth be told, this might as well be Pink, albeit a Pink who's traded in her playful bounce for a strident, brow-furrowing, 4 Non Blondes-loving yowl. Still, you'd be pissed-off too if, as appears to be the case here, you've been enabling a cokehead lover for what feels like forever. There's a theory that this kind of true confessions pop rock is merely the musical equivalent of the Jeremy Kyle show, and there's little here to disabuse that notion. We'll be right back after these messages…

    by Ian Watson