SiaBest Sia Albums Ranked

This Is Acting

nme

8.0

“Camera-shy Australian Sia occupies a singular position as a hit pop songwriter who moonlights as a chart-topping artist in her own right. ‘This Is Acting’ features tracks she wrote for A-listers including Adele, Beyoncé and Rihanna but kept for herself after they were rejected. It’s an album filled with scraps, then – but they’re scraps that would be snapped up by most pop stars in a second. Any ”

This Is Acting

exclaim

7.0

“Some of the tracks, like the first few ballads, feel a tad exhausted and perhaps a little clichéd, but that's the nature of Sia's universal, inclusive pop music, and on This is Acting, she approaches it in an intriguing way and performs it with gusto.”

1000 Forms of Fear

fantano

7.0

“Sia drums up some classy and tasteful radio-ready hits on her most commercial album yet.”

We Are Born

rollingstone

7.0

“Aussie singer Sia got famous cooing moody tracks for Zero 7 and Six Feet Under, but there’s a perky dance diva trapped behind her blond bob. On her first album of uptempo numbers, the 34-year-old combines disco funk with the throwback soul of U.K. crooners like Adele. Her secret weapon: Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi, whose […]”

This Is Acting

pitchfork

6.8

“In a few short years, Sia has gone from subverting the mainstream to being the mainstream. In light of that transformation, you'd expect more than an almost play-by-play recreation of her most recent highlights. Her new album This Is Acting can't help but feel like the big-budget sequel to 1000 Forms of Fear's sleeper-hit success.”

We Are Born

pitchfork

6.6

“Sia migrates from understated R&B to energetic pop with a few refreshing results.”