''This Music'' is the debut
studio album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ...
by Australian singer-songwriter
Celia Pavey. It was released in July 2013 and peaked at number 14 on the
ARIA Charts
The ARIA Charts are the main Australian record chart, music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA beca ...
.
Background and release
In 2013 Pavey auditioned for ''
The Voice Australia
''The Voice'' is an Australian singing competition television series. It premiered on the Nine Network on 14 April 2012, before moving to the Seven Network in 2021. Based on the original Dutch singing competition '' The Voice of Holland'', a ...
'' and was mentored by
Delta Goodrem
Delta Lea Goodrem Order of Australia, AM (born 9 November 1984) is an Australian singer, songwriter, television personality and actress based in Sydney. Goodrem signed a recording contract with Sony Music at the age of 15. Her debut studio album ...
. In June she became the second runner-up behind
Harrison Craig
Harrison Craig (born 7 September 1994) is an Australian singer who won the The Voice (Australia series 2), second series of ''The Voice (Australia), The Voice Australia''. Craig was coached in the program by British singer Seal (artist), Seal. ...
and
Luke Kennedy. She was signed to Universal Music Australia immediately following the show and recorded an album featuring songs Pavey had performed on the show along with "a couple of extras".
"Believe Me" was released as the first official single from the album on 5 July but failed to impact the Australian singles chart.
In an interview with ''Cream'' in August 2013 Pavey responded to the question of recording original material; "It was good fun doing covers, and cover work is really good for artists to practise, but I was really excited to get one of my own compositions on there. And I can't wait to do more of that."
Critical reception
A staff writer at
news.com.au
News.com.au (stylised in all lowercase) is an Australian website owned by News Corp Australia. It had 9.6 million unique readers in April 2019 and covers national and international news, lifestyle, travel, entertainment, technology, finance an ...
gave the album 3 out of 5 stars, saying "Her 'Scarborough Fair' is enchanting and her incredible version of
Joni Mitchell
Roberta Joan Mitchell (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter. As one of the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitch ...
's 'Woodstock' would surely have got her a record deal with or without a hit TV show." They were more critical of "Xanadu", saying she had "suck
dall the fun out of
t with her cover, but concluded by saying they hoped Pavey would "see the world" and make the album she wants to make.
Track listing
Charts
Release history
References
{{Authority control
2013 debut albums
2010s covers albums
Mercury Records albums
Universal Music Australia albums
Vera Blue albums