Draft:Onlysee

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{{AFC comment|1=There appear to be only passing mentions in reliable sources, nothing more than a single sentence. Please add sources discussing the album in greater length. Frost 15:50, 14 March 2025 (UTC)}}

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{{Infobox album

| name = Onlysee

| type = studio

| artist = Sia Furler

| cover =

| border = yes

| released = {{Start date|1997|12|23|df=y}}

| recorded = 1997

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Acid jazz, trip hop

| length = 52:16

| label = Flavoured Records

| producer = Jesse Flavell

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = Healing Is Difficult

| next_year = 2001

}}

Onlysee is the debut studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Sia. This is her only studio album to be credited under her full name, Sia Furler; her later albums all use her stage Sia. It was released on 23 December 1997, in Australia, after she left the acid jazz band Crisp.{{cite web |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/7556295?selectedversion=NBD13682423|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131225133718/http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/7556295?selectedversion=NBD13682423| title=Onlysee / Sia Furler. [sound recording] |publisher=National Library of Australia|archive-date=25 December 2013}}

Background

In the mid-1990s, Sia started a career as a singer in the local acid jazz band Crisp under her full name, Sia Furler.{{cite journal |url=http://www.mjmharry.com/docs/Sia-Furler.pdf| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101105010101/http://www.mjmharry.com/docs/Sia-Furler.pdf|title=Sia Sensation|first=Michael|last=Harry|journal=The Adelaide Advertiser|pages=24–26|archive-date=5 November 2010}} Sia contributed vocals to their album Word and the Deal (1996) and EP Delirium (1997).Word and the Deal and Delirium:

  • {{cite web|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/15875159?selectedversion=NBD12798813|title=Word and the deal / Crisp. [sound recording]|publisher=National Library of Australia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114223832/http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/15875159?selectedversion=NBD12798813|archive-date=14 January 2015|url-status=dead}}
  • {{cite web|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/24518036?q&versionId=29594043|title=Delirium / Crisp. [sound recording]|publisher=National Library of Australia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115020959/http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/24518036?q&versionId=29594043|archive-date=15 January 2015|url-status=dead}} When Crisp disbanded in 1997, Sia signed with Flavored Records in Australia and recorded her first solo album, Onlysee, writing or co-writing six of the songs on the album. The disc was produced by Jesse Flavell, who also wrote most of the songs on the album and co-wrote all but two others.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/7556295?selectedversion=NBD13682423 "Onlysee (sound recording) / Sia Furler"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108233421/https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/7556295?selectedversion=NBD13682423 |date=8 January 2018 }}, Flavoured Records, 1997, Trove.nla.gov.au, accessed 8 January 2018 The album was recorded in less than three weeks.From the producer's note. [https://www.discogs.com/release/5058458-Sia-Furler-Onlysee/image/SW1hZ2U6MTAzMDE2MTI= "Sia Furler – Onlysee (1997, CD)"]. [http://www.discogs.com/ Discogs]. 1997.

==Commercial performance==

The album sold 1,200 copies, 1,000 of them in Adelaide; it did not chart.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/sia-face-songs-chandelier-maddie-ziegler-712691/|title=How Sia Saved Herself|last=Aron|first=Hillel|date=24 August 2018|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=15 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200130044709/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/sia-face-songs-chandelier-maddie-ziegler-712691|archive-date=30 January 2020|url-status=live}} Sia, unhappy with the poor sales performance of the album,{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} moved to London and began providing lead vocals for English downtempo group Zero 7.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} She later signed to Long Lost Brother Records & Sony Music's Dance Pool sub-label in 2000 and began working on her second studio album, Healing Is Difficult.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} The song "Soon" was re-recorded and renamed "Sober and Unkissed" for Healing Is Difficult.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} The album is out of print and unavailable on any streaming services.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

Track listing

All tracks are produced by Jesse Flavell. All tracks are written solely by Jesse Flavell, except where noted.

{{track listing

| total_length = 52:16

| headline = Standard edition

| title1 = Don't Get Me Started

| writer1 =

| length1 = 5:33

| title2 = I Don't Want to Want You

| writer2 = Flavell, Sia Furler

| length2 = 5:02

| title3 = Onlysee

| writer3 =

| length3 = 4:14

| title4 = Stories

| writer4 = Furler, Flavell

| length4 = 4:40

| title5 = Madlove

| writer5 = Furler

| length5 = 1:13

| title6 = A Situation

| writer6 =

| length6 = 4:21

| title7 = Shadow

| writer7 =

| length7 = 3:47

| title8 = Asrep Onosim

| writer8 = Furler, Flavell

| length8 = 6:01

| title9 = Take It to Heart

| writer9 =

| length9 = 4:37

| title10 = Beautiful Reality

| writer10 =

| length10 = 4:31

| title11 = Soon

| writer11 = Furler, Flavell

| length11 = 2:39

| title12 = One More Shot

| writer12 =

| length12 = 3:36

| title13 = Tripoutro

| writer13 = Furler

| length13 = 2:01

}}

References

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