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 =
| 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
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://www.discogs.com/release/5058458-Sia-Furler-Onlysee Onlysee] on Discogs
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{{Draft categories|
:Category:Sia (musician) albums
:Category:Trip hop albums by Australian artists
:Category:1990s pop album stubs
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