Length 44:30 | 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.
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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.
- "Wanem Time" (Neil Murray) – 2:49
- "Island Home" (Murray) – 4:12
- "San E Wireless" – (Anu, Nelson) 3:32
- "Monkey and the Turtle" – 3:59
- "Come On" – 3:37
- "Rain" (Anu, Bridie, Steve Hadley, Nelson) – 2:32
- "Party" – 3:14
- "Tama Oma" – 2:04
- "Dive" – 4:07
- "Stylin' Up" (Anu, Bridie, Peter Luscombe) – 2:45
- "Photograph" – 3:52
- "Love That Heals" (Murray) – 4:35
- "Sik O" (Bridie, Traditional) – 3:12
- "Wanem Time" – 3:04
- "Kulba Yaday" – 3:43
- "Sailing Song" – 2:01
- "Last Train" – 4:41
- "Keep Up" – 3:40
- "Love That Heals" – 4:48
Songs
1Wanem Time2:49
2Island Home4:12
3San E Wireless3:32