| Stolen Hill | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Anika Moa |
| Cover: | Stolen Hill.jpg |
| Released: | 1 August 2005 |
| Recorded: | Bethells Beach |
| Genre: | Pop |
| Length: | 46:17 |
| Label: | Warner Music NZ |
| Producer: | Edmund McWilliams, Jr, Anika Moa |
| Prev Title: | Thinking Room |
| Prev Year: | 2001 |
| Next Title: | In Swings The Tide |
| Next Year: | 2007 |
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".
The title track of the album relates to the poor treatment of Māori during the New Zealand Wars.[1]
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]
All songs written by Anika Moa except "Wrestled with Your Angels" by Moa and Adam Peters.
Source: Spotify.[5]
The album debuted on the New Zealand Albums Chart in August 2005 at number six. In the album's second week it was certified gold, selling over 7,500 albums.[6] The album spent a total of eight weeks in the chart.[7]
Source: CD liner[8]