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Source	Rating
Metacritic	77/100
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Pitchfork Media	7.3/10
The Guardian
The Observer
PopMatters	9/10
Rolling Stone
Slant Magazine

Colour the Small One is the third album by Australian singer-songwriter Sia, which was released in Australia and the United Kingdom on 19 January 2004. It was issued in the United States on 3 February 2004. Production was by Jimmy Hogarth, who also co-wrote three tracks and provided various instruments. It was re-released 10 January 2006 in the US, after the track "Breathe Me" became popular on alternative radio, following its feature as the closing song in the series finale of the HBO drama Six Feet Under (aired August 2005). The album peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers Albums Chart. In July 2011 "Breathe Me" was also featured in the ABC Family television film, cyberbu//y.

In 2000, Sia was based in the United Kingdom from her previous solo album Healing Is Difficult, and it would re-appeared in 2001. However, she was unhappy with the promotion of the album. Sia fired her manager, left Sony Music and signed with Go! Beat Records, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. The album was recorded in 2003 at Heliocentric Studios in Rye with Jimmy Hogarth producing. Sia credits the biggest influence on her new album as touring with Zero 7.

All tracks are co-written by Sia, five of the original eleven tracks are co-written with bass guitarist, Samuel Dixon. Hogarth also co-wrote three tracks with Furler and provided various instruments. The track "The Bully" is co-written by Furler with United States musician, Beck. Two other songs from the Colour the Small One sessions were co-written with Beck but were not used. "Natale's Song" has backing vocals from UK singer Sophie Barker who had previously worked with Sia on the Zero 7 single, "Destiny" (August 2001). Another UK singer, Yvonne John Lewis, features on "The Church of What's Happening Now" as backing vocalist.

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