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“Now relocated to London to launch her career in Europe, Blasko undeniably has the right album to go with. Her voice, pure and understated, is brought to life by the spartan and sensitive production of Bjorn Yttling (of Peter, Bjorn And John fame).
Centrepiece of the album is undoubtedly All I Want, a poetic piece of self-analysis, a lonely melody with a Morricone feel. It sets the reflective and self-critical tone of almost all the songs from the pop of We Won’t Run to the jazz-club cool of Bird On A Wire, cut from the same musical cloth as Fever. There are subtle surprises too: No Turning Back stomps along like something out of a Kurt Weill score, while Over And Over ends in a neat conceit, with the interpolation of a snippet of Talking Heads’ Road To Nowhere. In total, it brings to mind Portishead without the beats, or the original, pop-star Bjork.”

**** David Buckley – MOJO, UK

“Australian Sarah Blasko’s third solo album is a perfectly pitched affair, balancing introspection with wry eccentricity to conjure up something intimate yet poppy, delicate yet emotionally full-blooded. Produced in Stockholm by Bjorn Yttling (of Peter, Bjorn & John), the understated arrangements are brightened by surprising splashes of musical colour. A gentle beauty.”

**** Neil McCormack – THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, UK

“Sarah Blasko was voted the female artist of 2009 in Australia and with this, her third album, she gets her first international release. As Day Follows Night’s stylish, slightly jazzy pop, produced by Bjorn Yttling of cool Swedish band Peter, Bjorn And John, is impressive enough to make you wonder what else they’ve got in the Southern Hemisphere that they’re not telling us about.
‘Pure elemental songs played on acoustic instruments,’ is how Sarah Blasko describes As Day Follows Night. It’s a target many aim at but she hits it dead-centre.

Charisma is all that marks out a compelling singer-songwriter from the many average ones and Blasko has a subtle abundance. She has the kind of voice usually described as bewitching but she can be unaffected too, and is at home at the centre of Yttling’s spacious arrangements, which set bare piano and guitar inside a cavern of percussion and strings.

There’s drama everywhere, particularly in the smoky Bird On A Wire and the spaghetti-Western stylings of All I Want. Down On Love brings a music-box quality to a delicate lullaby of a tune that recalls Jeff Buckley’s version of hallelujah; Over & Over’s marching drums see it transform gradually into Talking Heads’ Road To Nowhere.

Tom Waits is the godfather of all such charmed, slyly experimental music, but equally there’s nothing here that would scare any fan of Norah Jones or Madeleine Peyroux.

As Day Follows Night arrives here without too much fanfare but it deserves plenty. Remarkably appealing and thoroughly recommended.”

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