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 Female Artist of a Lifetime August 13, 2005
Andy Gill (Dorset, England)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
I was once sitting on a bench in the dark one night and a girl came out of a door nearby holding a baby and she sang Lisa Loeb's 'Stay (I Missed You)' to the child to send her off to sleep. I sat in silence, hearing this girl singing to her baby in an angelic voice, and for the duration of the song it seemed they were the only two people in the world. It was the most touching experience of my life. Since then I've bought millions of albums by female artists, trying to find one that managed to capture that feeling of witnessing something by accident that is so pure and personal it changes your whole outlook. In Missy Higgins' The Sound of White, I found it.
She has the strength of Pink without the self-pity; the poetry of Jewel minus the preachiness; the catchiness of Avril without the whininess; the originality of Alanis, putting aside the ego; the individuality of Lisa Loeb without the childishness; the distinctiveness of Norah Jones and the power of Eva Cassidy, with better songs; a voice more expressive than Sara MacLachlan and Delta Goodren; and a talent and energy well in excess of Vanessa Carlton. It is an amazing thing to draw together so many disparate threads into something that feels compact and whole, as if it was always meant to be, but Missy Higgins pulls it off and then some.
The songs on The Sound of White are something of a paradox, being simultaneously intimate and universal, laid-back and intense, moving and uplifting. It is perhaps a facet of her voice, which conveys both strength and vulnerability in the same breath. I do not know why, here in the UK, nobody has ever heard of her, but I am certain it will not be long before she's topping the album charts. In short, I cannot commend this album enough.
I'd recommend anyone into the above artists, or those into the 'bedsit crooner' style currently popular in the form of Damian Rice and James Blunt, to check out Missy Higgins and see what perfection really sounds like.
Beautiful voice- no fake accent at all! September 30, 2005
J. Avalos Capin (Mexico City)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I don't know what a couple of people who reviewed this are talking about! Just this morning I heard an extensive interview with Missy on the radio and she speaks just as she sings: perfectly Australian (and proud of it, I might add) and perfectly amazing! She is authentic, raw and inspiring. Her songs are pure talent and her voice shines. I don't know how all you gentlemen feel but this is THE girl album of the century...it's inventive, smart, heart wrenching, soul revealing and STRONG. Please get this album, it will change your life!
Words can't describe... October 12, 2005
T. Foster (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I don't even know where to start. This album is truly one of my favorite albums of all time. I've been living life for the past couple of months with this CD as a constant companion to every emotion and feeling that I have. It's beautiful, breath taking, and it can truly change your life, as it has mine. Whenever you go through with something in life and an artist's music comes into your mind and helps you through, you know that is powerful. So much in fact for me that when I found out that Missy was playing a show in Atlanta, I flew to Atlanta from Fort Lauderdale, FL for the concert. She was in the Southeast, and I was determined to see her. I got the wonderful pleasure of meeting Missy at the show, and she is every bit as wonderful and amazing in person. It truly meant a lot to me to meet her because I've been going through a particularly difficult period in my life right now, and when there's no friends around and no one to talk to, her music has been there as a form of support, which shows how powerful music really can be. I strongly urge anyone reading this to buy the album, and buy it for all of your friends also. Truly a rare gem that should be discovered.
"Pull back the sheild between us, and I'll kiss you
Drop your defenses and come into my arms
I'm all for believing..."
ALL FOR BELIEVING
"You won't talk me into next time
If I'm going away your heart's coming too
Cause I missed your hands, I miss your face
When I get back, let's disappear without a trace...
... The time has changed nothing at all
You're still the only one that feels like home"
TEN DAYS
"I'm a little bit tired of fearing that I'll be the bad fruit nobody buys...
...So that I do remember to never go that far
Could you leave me with a scar?"
SCAR
"If you tell me yours I'll tell you mine
And we will clean the cobwebs out of one another's minds
Don't ever say you've tried to leave me in this life
Don't ever say you've tried for the last time."
DON'T EVER
"This world you're in now
It doesn't have to be alone, I'll get there somehow
Cos' I know, I know, I know
When even springtime feels cold...
But I will learn to breathe this ugliness you see
So we can both be there
And we can both share the dark
And in our honesty together we will rise
Our of our nightminds and into the light at the end of the fight."
NIGHTMINDS
"But know in time you'll wake to find you're a little unbroken"
UNBROKEN
"How long, how long, how long will we take to come undone?
If you know the answer tell me now
And I'll write up the calendar for our countdown
Cause what we see is all we've got?
Say you've kept some fire aside to set light to me some surprising night.
And say you've locked some fire away to set light to me some surprising day... Any day now.
Cause finger by finger we're losing grasp
And I'm questioning the reasons why nothing beautiful does last..."
ANY DAY NOW (Very heart wrenching song. I have to say this is my favorite, if I had to choose.)
"She said 'I'm alive and I am free, but you see I have control over me'. But will you draw the line? Turn a blind eye to all the faces that you know? And she said 'go'. "
KATIE
"And when she reached the river her knees began to shiver
Her head with pounding voices from home
Behind her was a vision of painful apparation
Of a darker world no one should know.
Somebody's bed will never be warm again...
The river will keep this friend."
THE RIVER
"But I will fight for you
Be sure that I will fight until we're the special two once again
And we will only need each other, we'll bleed together
Our hands will not be taught to hold another's cause we're the special two.
And we can only see each other, we'll breathe together, these arms will not be taught to need another's cause we're the special two."
THE SPECIAL TWO
"But this is how it goes baby
I'll get angry at your words and I'll go home
And you won't call after me, cause I'll be back before you know."
THIS IS HOW IT GOES
"If things get real for me down here
Promise to take me to before you went away, if only for a day
If things get real for me down here
Promise to take me back to the tune we played before you went away...
And if I listen to the sound of white
Sometimes I hear your smile and breathe your light."
THE SOUND OF WHITE
"They all said 'You're too young to even know. Just don't let it grow and you'll be stronger without him' But, oh, now my world is at your feet. I was lost and I was found. But I was alive and now I've drowned. So now I will be waiting for the world to hear my song so they can tell me I was wrong. But they weren't there beneath your stare, and they weren't stripped till they were bare from any bindings from the world outside that room. And they weren't taken by the hand and lead through fields of naked land where any preconceived ideas were blown away... So I couldn't say 'no'."
THEY WEREN'T THERE (Hidden track after The Sound of White)
I'm so thankful for Missy for sharing her life through her music. Buy this album. You'll grow because of it.
Tim, Ft. Lauderdale
Beautiful debut! August 25, 2005
face02 (Schaumburg, IL United States)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Before getting to a Ray LaMontagne concert early this Spring, I had never heard of Missy Higgins. Her album was not yet out in the US. Within just a few minutes, I knew I'd be searching that album out as soon as it came out. She's an excellent live performer, and a great songwriter.
As good as she was live, she's even better on her debut album. This is such a stunningly excellent debut, I'd go as far as putting it in the top 5 albums I've heard this year - and being a music junkie, that's saying something.
Most of this album is excellent piano driven singer-songwriter tracks at their best. You may have already heard some of the standouts (All for Believing, Scar, 10 Days), however, the album never really slows down - and does not have a weak link in the chain of excellent songs.
As other reviews have noted, this has gone Platinum 7 times in her homeland of Austrailia. How this hasn't gotten more recognition in the states yet is a mystery - but give it time.
 Fake accent........you've got to be kidding! September 28, 2005
Ajay (Sydney, Australia)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
The more I hear Missy Higgins, the more I like her. Her music is original; the lyrics are deep-felt and original; and she appears genuine. Laptop Junkie - you wouldn't know a genuine Australian accent if you fell over it. Missy sings with a genuine Aussie accent, unlike many others who put on a fake American accent to please the masses.
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