Stolen Hill
| Stolen Hill | ||||
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| Studio album by Anika Moa | ||||
| Released | 1 August 2005 | |||
| Recorded | Bethells Beach | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 46:15 | |||
| Label | Warner Music NZ | |||
| Producer | Edmund McWilliams, Jr, Anika Moa | |||
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Stolen Hill is the second studio album by New Zealand recording artist Anika Moa, it was released on 1 August 2005 by Warner Music NZ. The album was certified gold and has sold over 7,500 copies.
Background
Anika Moa said that the album contrasts with her debut, Thinking Room; "Stolen Hill is not as over-produced; more sparse, more feeling, more family-like, more Māori, more me...[it] is just me growing up".[1]
The title track of the album relates to the poor treatment of Māori during the New Zealand land wars.[1]
Promotion and reception
In September 2005, Moa announced twenty-two shows in a nationwide album tour in October that year, two months after the albums's release.[2]
Grant Smithies of The Sunday Star-Times gave Stolen Hill four stars, calling it "poignant and original",[2] while Russell Baillie of The New Zealand Herald gave it only three stars, criticising several songs' "unlikely marriage of style and subject," and called it an album of "oddball character."[3] Nick Bollinger from New Zealand Listener said "Stolen Hill finds Moa maturing and discovering her own sound, but it feels like a work in progress. Although full of charm and unmistakable in its locale, the styles Moa toys with sometimes appear borrowed; as if she is trying them on and still making up her mind which ones fit her best."[4]
Track listing
- "Ka Whakahuia Ano" – 1:51
- "In the Morning" – 4:17
- "Lies in This Land" – 4:32
- "Picture Me in the 70's" – 3:48
- "Stolen Hill" – 4:39
- "Broken Man" – 3:03
- "Loving You" – 5:07
- "Annie Goes to Sleep" – 5:16
- "Wrestled With Your Angels" – 4:36
- "Society" – 3:48
- "Papercuts" – 4:18
- "Kotahitanga" – 1:00
Chart performance
The album debuted on the New Zealand Albums Chart in August 2005 at number six. In the album's second week it was certified gold, selling over 7,500 albums.[5] The album spent a total of eight weeks in the chart.[6]
Personnel
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- Source: CD liner[7]
References
- 1 2 Kara, Scott (16 July 2005). "Anika Moa finds room to think". The New Zealand Herald. APN News & Media. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
- 1 2 "Anika Moa National Tour This October" (Press release). Anika Moa. 13 September 2005. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
- ↑ Baillie, Russell (30 July 2005). "Anika Moa: Stolen Hill". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
- ↑ Bollinger, Nick (13–19 August 2005). "Jewel of denial". New Zealand Listener. 199 (3405). Archived from the original on 16 July 2010. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
- ↑ "Top 40 Albums Chart (#1473)". Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. 15 August 2005. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
- ↑ "Anika Moa – Stolen Hill". Hung Medien. charts.org.nz. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
- ↑ Stolen Hill (CD liner). Anika Moa. New Zealand: EMI. 2005.