My New Year's Resolution? To dance more. Who's going to help me? Sia the whacky Aussie with a Motown voice and indie sensibilities (check some of her insane vids for her awesome songs). Her moment in the pop music spotlight came when her song "Breathe Me" was used in the final episode of HBO's Six Feet Under and subsequently on the soundtrack. That song was breathy, ethereal and unnerving - like Sarah McLachlan having a mental breakdown. Her second album introduced a more soulful sound and the original version of "Buttons" hails from there (it's a hidden track). This remix by those zany Brazilians CSS adds glitchy keyboards to the sound of a one-woman girl group charting her descent into madness in the wake of a bad breakup. Unlike many remixes though, her voice is not buried and you wouldn't want to bury the way that Sia's voice hits notes with such a cleaness. She massages words, makes them trills, and drives home the anguish and anger without losing her cool ice queen sound. Sia is in full control of her clear notes as she's ringing phrases like bells. It's like Phil Specter's Wall of Sound by way of an eighties Madonna track. Or, rather, it's more unique than that, and it'll lodge itself in your head as did with me from the first time my brother played it for me. Toss it on and join me on the dance floor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrjMlNxQ-co
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