The Vine - Albums of the Year (Australia)

Sarah Blasko
As Day Follows Night

Don't be put off by that artwork. Or anything she's done before. Blasko ditches the songwriting partner, decamps to Sweden to record with the guy who made 'Young Folks', and makes not only her best album by an embarrassing margin but recalibrates her entire persona from 'middling pop' to 'artiste extraordinaire'. In the meantime we get the most evocative, bare and classiest account of the dead roots of a relationship since I don't know when. If Blasko was American she'd be winning Grammy's and purchasing townhouses overlooking Central Park for this. As it is she gets to bunched up on stage with Lisa Mitchell and Kate Miller-Heidke in one of the ARIA's most chauvenistic moments.