Sia returns with fifth album 'We Are Born'

Adelaide-born pop sensation, Sia Furler, will return with her highly-anticipated fifth album, ‘We Are Born’, this 18th June 2010 on Monkey Puzzle through Inertia. To satisfy the appetite of fans, Sia has uploaded an exclusive stream of six brand new tracks to her website, www.siamusic.net, including the album’s first official single, “Clap Your Hands”.

With teaser single, “You’ve Changed”, already proving a major hit – earning constant rotation on Nova and Triple J – Australians have fallen in love with the homegrown songstress turned global star and media personality.

The release of ‘We Are Born’ follows a massive 12 months for Sia, in which she has staged two sell-out tours of Australia, had a radio smash with “Buttons”, won an ARIA Award (‘Best Music DVD’), and performed on nationally televised platforms including Australia’s 2009 MTV Awards, Channel 10’s Rove and Channel 7’s Sunrise. On an international front, Sia has been co-writing songs with Christina Aguilera for the pop icon’s forthcoming album ‘Bionic’.

Yet in spite of how busy she’s been, Sia has also managed to craft a bold pop record of unwavering consistency, depth, finish, and pleasure. Produced by Greg Kurstin – the man behind recent efforts from Lily Allen, Kesha, Britney Spears, and Ladyhawke – ‘We Are Born’, is fourteen dazzling songs, full of finessed immediacy, stark power and kinetic rhythmic motion. Yet they sacrifice none of the raw emotionality that distinguished Sia's often more inward-leaning and languorous work, both with the cinematic U.K. duo Zero 7 and on her own previous recordings. 

"'We Are Born' is the album I've been wanting to make since 'Colour the Small One'," explains Sia, referring to her 2004 album.  "But I wasn't allowed to."  She is talking about her former record company's wholesale refusal a while back to accept music from her that left the downtempo universe then at its height of fashionability, and she mentions her earlier albums.  "I'm really impressionable about music," she begins.  "When I was hanging out with hip-hoppers I made 'Healing Is Difficult' in 2000.  When I was hanging out with Zero 7, I made "Colour the Small One'.  In 2008 I made 'Some People Have Real Problems' -- because," Sia sniffs, "apparently I was a downtempo artist exclusively. 'We Are Born' is the album I've made when I've been hanging out with myself."