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The Sound of White | 
| Artist: Missy Higgins
Label: Reprise / Wea
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 2829
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 49329
UPC: 093624932925
EAN: 0093624932925
ASIN: B00092ZM84
Release Date: June 7, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | All For Believing | | • | Ten Days | | • | Scar | | • | Don't Ever | | • | Night Minds | | • | Unbroken | | • | Any Day Now | | • | Katie | | • | The River | | • | The Special Two | | • | This Is How It Goes | | • | The Sound Of White |
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Album Description
The Australian success story of 2004, 21-year-old singer-songwriter Missy Higgins had her critically acclaimed album The Sound of White certified quintuple platinum in her homeland and won an ARIA (Australia's Grammy) for Best Pop Release. Now The Sound of White, produced by John Porter (Ryan Adams, Los Lonely Boys, The Smiths), and the sincere, earthy, passionate sound of Missy Higgins arrive to conquer America.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 49 more reviews...
 Confused :-( September 4, 2005
Little Miss Cutey (Melbourne, Australia)
19 out of 46 found this review helpful
I think both I and Missy Higgins are confused. I'm confused as to why if she is Australian, does she sing with a Scottish/Irish accent, and she's confused as to where she comes from if she sings with a Scottish/Irish accent. The music is to folksy and weird for me, but this accent thing is the main reason I can't stand her.
What's with the fake accent September 26, 2005
Laptop junkie (USA)
16 out of 30 found this review helpful
I agree with Little Miss Cutie. This 'singer' has the weirdest accent considering she is meant to be Australian. What does she need to fake an Irish? Scottish? Welsh? accent for. She might actually have a semi decent voice if not for this stupid thing she's doing. Why not be who you are? Sing properly and you might be a bigger act.
 The Best Aussie Export since the Boomerang June 8, 2005
Anthony Champa (York, PA)
15 out of 20 found this review helpful
I had the great pleasure to spend much of the month of May in Australia and one of the things I wanted to do while there was find music that wasn't being played in the US, and I found a lot. While I enjoyed the likes of Delta Goodrem, The Cat Empire and Kasey Chambers the CD I have listened to most since coming home has been "The Sound of White" by Missy Higgins. I heard one of her singles on the plane somewhere over the Pacific on my way to Oz and then kept hearing it the whole time I was there, be it in a cab, on a boat, or just walking through a store it seemed like some one was always playing Missy Higgins. I started off by getting the full length album but after listening to if all the way through 5 or 6 times I made a quick trip to a record store to buy all of her singles as well. I can't do her song writing justice by comparing her to some other young American female popstar of today because they all seem to fit in to the same over produced "show biz" mold. Missy Higgins' songs feel like they might just be pages torn out of her (or any other late teens, early twenties person's) diary. The words seem poetic without the tendency to seem sappy or forced, and I couldn't help really hearing what she had to say, not just listening to her words. In the end her words seemed to rattle around in my head a bit longer as much for how she was singing them as for the subject matter and writing. She sings with an Australian accent, that seems to just be melodious incarnation of her speaking voice. I know that doesn't sound like a big deal, but with so many singers from all around the English speaking world all sounding like they come from the same place it truly is a breath of fresh air. As I have already said I would hesitate to say that this album sounds a lot like so and so's best work or reminds me of another famous artist because those types of comparisons are so rarely true from one listener to another and are for the most part subjective. So let me say that Missy Higgins sounds to me like a fantastically talented singer and an uncannily poignant songwriter who should be very successful anywhere she is heard. In a world where so much of the crap on the radio all sounds the same and so many of the artists tend to care more about what they can take out of our wallets it is nice to listen to something different that feels like it wants to tell us what Missy Higgins has to offer. As I said I bought the Australian version of "The Sound of White" in Sydney over a month ago, but, I just picked up the American release even though it has almost the same track line up, just because I want to cast my vote for a very deserving artist.
Is she Australian or Irish?? October 3, 2005
Erica's review
15 out of 35 found this review helpful
I thought this girl was Australian, but I guess I was wrong because she sounds Irish or something. Anyway, I thought this would be better than it was and it's not really my style of music. It's too boring and slow and no passion or soul is here. Plus, the twang she uses is not native of Australia. What gives? Anyway, I'm going to have to sell this one back as it's too boring and sleep inducing. I think I'll stick to Soul and RnB. Much more passion in that style of music and they don't pretend to be something they aren't.
Higgins Shines September 26, 2005
Nasser Alqatami
13 out of 23 found this review helpful
Forget about the British invasion. The real deal now is the Aussie take-off. We giggled at the sight of Kylie back when she came out, but now she stands as a huge force in popular culture. Even her sister managed to break free from the shackles of teeny-bopper land. Then Natalie Imbruglia bursts onto the scene popularizing Australian imports even more and stripping the genre of pop away from it.
Nowadays, a young folkie by the name of Missy Higgins is getting a lot of buzz and deservedly so. Higgins released the docile, yet pleasant The Sound Of White after a trip backpacking across Europe. Wavering between a young Aimee Man and a direct Natalie Merchant, the newbie shines through other attempts of college cafe ditties.
The album starts out with the track that has landed her the record deal "All For Believing" - a track that encompasses stark sentimentality with urge of forgiveness. The kind of song one would listen to in order to stay in a relationship.
The soft-heartedness continues with the standout of "Ten Days," which is another hymn for the troubled, yet with a tone of desperation so honed it would make "Un-Break My Heart" sound crass.
Then comes the slightly upper-tempo "Scar." This further sets the air for the album, which carries the same theme of a tumultuous relationship throughout.
But, the jitteriness ends with the melancholy "Don't Ever" through the lonesome "Katie"
Then more dejected moments arise with the arresting "The Special Two," which finds Higgins in both a figurative and literal stupor.
The Sound Of White is a diary of thought for the forlorn. In almost every song Higgins can't stand the situation she is in. It continues on with melodic aptitude and remains fey throughout. This is very depressing, but in the good sense. Only a few people can pull off sad music and Higgins joins that group.
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