Sarah Blasko
What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have
LP (2006, Dew Process)
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Listening to Sarah Blasko is like sucking on candy and thinking about diabetes. Her second suite of sweet, dark pop opens with a retro-digital graveyard tune, halfway between Ghosts and Goblins on a Commodore 64 and a “dear diary” entry. The pace picks up, but the sense of unease never strays. “Do you wake at night, wishing you’d relied on someone else?” she asks on “[Explain]”, a wistful swirl of piano, organ and violin. The musically upbeat “Planet New Year” – a contender for best Australian song of 2006 – is similarly gorgeous and unsettling. “I’m feeling like the first to’ve wasted all God’s time,” Blasko sings, finding the one sentence which could have replaced countless debut novels by late-twenty-somethings. But the angst leaking from Blasko’s pen dissipates around her silky, silver-tongued vocals. It’s hard not to smile listening to a talent like this. What The Sea Wants… is a superb second album.
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