The Moment

about this album

When the press rumbles began for the return of Mia Dyson http://miadyson.com to Australia to tour her new album The Moment, one of the lesser rags caught hold of, of all things, Dyson’s mooted creative liason with Dave Stewart. Stewart, ex-Eurythmics pop maestro and purveyor of all things glossy, seemed keen to reinvent the hugely talented and highly individualistic Mia as an androgynous creation called BOY. The short story is that the tabloid got most of the details wrong and anyway, Mia and Dave parted ways before any damage could be done. The good news is that Dave Stewart, über-mensch that he may be, didn’t get to put his hands on any of this astounding music. The Moment is thankfully as far from his sheened and preened version of the blues (vis a vis the Eurythmics cartoon-blues ‘Missionary Man’) as you can get. The Moment come out of Dyson’s roller-coaster assault on America over the last three years. America assaulted back, costing Dyson a relationship but osmosing its legends, people and road-tales into her music. The new album is doubtless the pinnacle of Mia Dyson’s work so far – everything works, everything rings true, everything speaks with her unmatched voice. 1.When The Moment Comes 2. Pistol 3. Tell Me 4. Fill Yourself 5. The Outskirts of Town 6. Dancing On the Edge 7. Jesse 8. To Fight is to Lose 9. Cigarettes 10. Two Roads Mia Dyson’s voice is what gets you from the outset. The album opener, first single ‘When The Moment Comes’ is a tightly coiled rock

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