Stolen Hill
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| Stolen Hill | ||||
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| Released | 1 August 2005 | |||
| Recorded | Bethells Beach | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 46:17 | |||
| 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, released on 1 August 2005 by Warner Music NZ. The album was certified gold and has sold over 7,500 copies.
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 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 album'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
All songs written by Anika Moa except "Wrestled with Your Angels" by Moa and Adam Peters.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Ka Whakahuia Ano" | 1:51 |
| 2. | "In the Morning" | 4:17 |
| 3. | "Lies in This Land" | 4:32 |
| 4. | "Picture Me in The 70's" | 3:48 |
| 5. | "Stolen Hill" | 4:39 |
| 6. | "Broken Man" | 3:03 |
| 7. | "Loving You" | 4:34 |
| 8. | "Annie Goes to Sleep" | 5:06 |
| 9. | "Wrestled with Your Angels" | 5:15 |
| 10. | "Society" | 3:48 |
| 11. | "Papercuts" | 4:18 |
| 12. | "Kotahitanga" | 1:00 |
| Total length: | 46:17 | |
Source: Spotify.[5]
