01. Down On Love 2:31
02. All I Want 3:53
03. Bird On A Wire3:14
04. Hold On My Heart 4:03
05. We Won't Run 4:00
06. Is My Baby Yours 3:37
07. Sleeper Awake 6:18
08. No Turning Back 4:02
09. Lost & Defeated 3:34
10. Over & Over 3:58
11. I Never Knew4:11
12. Night & Day 4:00.
Biography: Sarah+Blasko
* Born: September 23, 1976, Sydney, Australia Period: 2000s
Biography:
Australian Sarah Blasko arrived in the U.S. in 2005 with a pedigree that could not be ignored: trailing a list of ARIA Award nominations in the categories of Best Album, Best Female Artist, Best Breakthrough Artist, and Best Pop Release, she also distinguished herself -- and perked the ears of rock skeptics -- by being tagged somewhere along her cross-continental journey with the moniker Girliohead. The comparisons are not unfounded. Like Radiohead and the countless lovelorn, world-weary, too-smart-for-their-own-good British piano pounders that the band spawned, Blasko is an appealing wallower. Her ethereal, at times Fiona Apple-like voice rides the gentle arrangements on her debut full-length, The Overture & the Underscore, taking care never to redirect them, and her lyrics evoke an atmospheric grace that burrows into the mind`s dark recesses. Blasko`s head space is the kind that`s allergic to daylight.
It has been reported that Blasko sung her first songs in church alongside her tone-deaf mother and an 80-year-old soprano, but the influences that come across more readily in her music derive from the `80s radio and television she heard as a child -- Prince, David Bowie, and Eurythmics. Those popular acts, combined with the composers her professor father introduced her to -- Rachmaninov, Schubert, and Bach -- formed a pleasing musical jumble she would later pick apart and repackage into digestible, brainy pop. In high school, Blasko led a jazz- and blues-influenced band with her sister that soon dissolved; other bands followed, but within the space of a few years Blasko was determinedly a solo act, and also something of a homebody.
A first EP, the six-song Prelusive, issued in 2004, was routinely referred to as "homespun." But its promise propelled Blasko. Later that year, with The Overture & the Underscore racking up fans in Australia, the artist pulled up stakes and landed in Hollywood. After the disc`s 2005 release stateside, Blasko embarked on tours with Ray LaMontagne and Martha Wainwright. Her second full-length album, What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have, was released in Australia in 2006, debuting at number seven on the ARIA chart.
