Monday, February 02, 2015

Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear

This is a pretty terrific record, and Sia seems like the complete package - soaringly dramatic songs made better by unexpected details (small and large), vocals likewise and therefore a perfect match. Predictably, I like "Fire Meet Gasoline", the most straight up power ballad on an album that has several of them, even though it sounds a lot like Beyonce's "Halo"; also the gigantic "Chandelier", Chvrches-esque "Burn the Pages" (which also sounds like it could've come off 1989, and there's a whole tale about contemporary pop music there too probably - or, at least, about my own tastes) and skitteringly quirky "Elastic Heart".