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Length
  
44:30

Artist
  
Christine Anu

Producer
  
David Bridie

Genre
  
Pop music

Stylin' Up (1995)
  
Come My Way (2000)

Release date
  
29 May 1995

Label
  
Warner Music Australasia

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Released
  
1 May 1995 (1995-05-01)

Similar
  
Christine Anu albums, Pop music albums

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Stylin' Up is the debut album by Torres Strait Islander singer Christine Anu, released on 1 May 1995 by Mushroom Records. A deluxe edition was later released with six live tracks. The album was certified platinum in 2000.

Contents

The album fuses a blend of pure, up-beat pop with "Party" as well as the more traditional "Monkey and the Turtle". Upon release she told triple j’s Angela Catterns "Hopefully my album sales are going to go up and Indigenous artists are going to get more radio play, more recognition, that sort of stuff.”

At the ARIA Music Awards of 1995, the album was nominated for four awards, winning 'Best Indigenous Release'

In 2015, Anu celebrated the album's 20th anniversary by releasing a live recording titled ReStylin' Up 20 Years.

Christine anu stylin up


Critical reception

Don Snowden from AllMusic said: "Stylin' Up is an intriguing disc that makes clear Anu lines up far closer to Neneh Cherry's tough, positive assertion of female identity than any kind of fabricated ethnic exotic spice girl, but there's a sketchiness to some material that leaves it uneven and sometimes frustrating."

Track listing

All songs composed by Christine Anu and David Bridie except where noted.

  1. "Wanem Time" (Neil Murray) – 2:49
  2. "Island Home" (Murray) – 4:12
  3. "San E Wireless" – (Anu, Nelson) 3:32
  4. "Monkey and the Turtle" – 3:59
  5. "Come On" – 3:37
  6. "Rain" (Anu, Bridie, Steve Hadley, Nelson) – 2:32
  7. "Party" – 3:14
  8. "Tama Oma" – 2:04
  9. "Dive" – 4:07
  10. "Stylin' Up" (Anu, Bridie, Peter Luscombe) – 2:45
  11. "Photograph" – 3:52
  12. "Love That Heals" (Murray) – 4:35
  13. "Sik O" (Bridie, Traditional) – 3:12
Bonus disc
  1. "Wanem Time" – 3:04
  2. "Kulba Yaday" – 3:43
  3. "Sailing Song" – 2:01
  4. "Last Train" – 4:41
  5. "Keep Up" – 3:40
  6. "Love That Heals" – 4:48
  • Bonus disc recorded live at the Metro in Sydney on 29 July 1995.

    • Songs

    1Wanem Time2:49
    2Island Home4:12
    3San E Wireless3:32

    References

    Stylin' Up Wikipedia
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