Search - Kate Miller-Heidke :: Curiouser

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. The One Thing I Know
2. God's Gift To Women
3. Caught In the Crowd
4. Can't Shake It
5. The Last Day On Earth
6. I Like You Better When You're Not Around
7. Motorscooter
8. The End of School
9. Politics In Space
10. Supergirl
11. Our Song
12. No Truck

CD Details

All Artists: Kate Miller-Heidke
Title: Curiouser
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Phantom Sound & Vision
Release Date: 10/21/2008
Album Type: Import
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
Other Editions: Curiouser, Curiouser, Curiouser
UPC: 886973944028

Synopsis

Album Description

Australian pressing of the 2008 album from the Aussie singer/songwriter. Curioser radiates a newfound sense of mutual certainty from the first song. "The One Thing I Know" is an audacious mash-up of primal percussion, stomp box, '80s Synth squiggles, oddball sound effects and operatic interjections that sticks together into a seamless three minutes of timeless radio pop. It's hard to detect any obvious lapses in potency in Kate's brief but prolific back pages. She cut her stage teeth as an annual high-school troubadour at the Woodford Folk Festival near her hometown of Brisbane: with the significant advantages of operatic training and a love of musical theatre that remains evident in her effervescent wordplay and striking visual sense. Sony/BMG.

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CD Reviews

One Of Australia's best new artists!

Bradley Jackson | Australia | 01/23/2009

(4 out of 5 stars)

"After reading the last review, I just had to do one myself. I actually saw Kate in concert about 2 months ago and I was just blown away. She is incredible live. This album is also very good, yes she does blend opera into pop/rock music but it's really well done. There really isn't a bad song on this album and she is not your normal britney/whoever pop star, her songs are mature and well written. I highly recomend this artist."

Different to 'Little Eve'

C. J. Bajgar | 03/27/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Some people have said this album isn't as good as her previous album, Little Eve. But it is simply VERY different. Like Little Eve, it is different music, but INGENIOUS. Unfortunately, the album lasted only 3 weeks on the official charts but has left the critics gobsmacked. All tracks deserve 5 stars. Just like Little Eve, there are songs with ingenious lyrics (Can't Shake It), tearjerckers (Caught In The Crowd) and HILARIOUS songs (Politics in Space, I Like You Better When You're Not Around). Did you know that Kate is only 27 and half of the songs on here are written completely by herself?!

By the way, that person who gave the album 1 star, actually Kate has sung lots of Opera (look her up first before you critisise her) and actually many Pop Stars have opera training because it hugely broadens your voice range and stregthens it too.

Commercially, Kate can't directly compete with other Australian Pop Singers like Jessica Mauboy and Natalie Bassingwaigthe because her songs have large musical complexity and ordinary people tend to like simple songs but complexity is what critics love. In fact, Kate is a huge critical success. There is a scale of Musical Success which can never be balanced. On one side is Commercially and another side is Critical. For example, Britney Spears is definately on the commercial side but Kate is on the critical side.

It's a shame that Amazon doesn't have the album cover. It is SO funny. Go and see for yourself on google images."

Enegetic, catchy and quirky -- hope she catches on!

Robert J. McCaffree | L.A., CA USA | 09/16/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"
This album does sound more commercial than her last one (and certainly more than her two folk-based EPs), but there's still plenty of her signature wit, her fast-paced phrasing and that most impressive of instruments: her versatile voice.

Rarely do you run across a singer whose voice sounds as warm and approachable as Kate's does, who can also run the scales up to the far right side of the piano and beyond. And those who can pull off that stunt often annoy more than impress. But Kate has a great sense of whimsy and irony in her songwriting and knows when to accentuate her songs with a smart touch of drama, and somehow it all works in a very catchy, pop setting.

She says she's a fan of Tori Amos, but I hear more Kate Bush in her light touch on the piano, her sense of the absurd and her humor (not to mention a penchant for putting weird things in her hair). Ain't nothing wrong with that! This is a very upbeat, feel-good album and even the pensive tracks have a tendency to uplift rather than wallow. It's smart, fun pop that may not change the world, but hopefully will give KM-H a good liftoff...I can't wait to hear what she does next."