Missy Higgins, The Sound Of White.

Her album has done amazingly well in Australia, she just won an MTV Australia Video Music Award for Best Breakthrough Artist and the album is about to be released in the States.

I recommend you hunt down this album if you like the aforementioned artists...



One of my favourite albums of 2005 so far.

Listen here:

http://www.missyhiggins.com/

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What.... no Kate Bush?

I'll give her a listen though.....because I love the lady piano players

AnckSuNamun said:

no, as much as I love KB, Missy's voice is not that theatrical.

I swear, they're churning these "semi-sexy-yet-demure female singer/songwriters who sit at the piano and sing pretty but vacant lyrics about adolescent love and heartbreak" out at an alarming rate. Somewhere there's a factory.

If Delta Goodrem and PJ Harvey had a love child....

I just threw up in my mouth a little there....



Sorry, but seeing Dido, Sarah McLachlan, Norah Jones, and (sorry Tori fans) Tori's names along side Joni's just gave me a little scare.

Joni.

minneapolisgenius said:

well i was just searching for some comparisons....she's more like a young, but Aussie Joni than any of the others though.

VoicesCarry said:

First of all, she's not semi-sexy, she's totally sexy.

Second, her songs are very well written and most of them have a discernible hook....

Third....are you Australian? Delta and PJ Harvey's lovechild? No, not really.

mrdespues said:

I will give you a quick visual primer.



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VoicesCarry said:

well, VISUALLY, I can see that. Good observation. But MUSICALLY, she's quite different than both of those artists.

mrdespues said:

VISUALLY is what I was talking about. You know, in an "If they mated..." sort of way.

I haven't listened to this chick, although as minneapolisgenius said, the only name that gets me even remotely interested in that pack is Joni Mitchell.

VoicesCarry said:

well, there's definitely some early Joni to her work....have a listen here:

http://www.missyhiggins.com

mrdespues said:

Thanks, I'll have to give that a serious listen later (don't have my earbuds with me at the moment).

She looks more like Mandy Moore on her official site.

minneapolisgenius said:

joni was good but now even joni is no joni.

and this child has no comparable tori-esque qualities from what i can tell thus far.

SassyBritches said:

I don't really follow what Joni is doing at present, so I couldn't say. But I'm a huge fan of her early work.

SassyBritches said:

no, she's pretty unique really. the only reason i said tori is because of some of the piano ballads and joni because of the folky melodies and lyrics.

KATIE MELUA will be wiping up the floor
with all these artists years from now.

origmnd said:

I've heard her and Missy is better in my opinion.

They r trying to break Delta here in france also, she drives crazy she reminds me of Celine, now Missy what's her face! Australia already gave us Tina Arena, and we're still trying to get rid of her!

I can't stand Missy's voice.
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twink69 said:

Missy is more of a true artist than those two.

Alicia said:

though what?

ok i looked her up, and all I can say is she sounds like another Vanessa Carlton, her album is called "the sound of white"
and from the two tracks i heard it's about right, bland as rice cakes!! where's the hot sauce missy!

i actually find missy higgins quiet boring
delta as well, they both want to make me slit my wrists
they have got the musical talent, no doubt about it
but i just can't stand listening to their stuff.
just my

twink69 said:

I laughed when I read the title. "The Sound Of White". Yup, sounds about right.