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Somewhere, Anywhere

album by Sally Seltmann

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2024
Entity authorityQ7560327 ↗
Source-derived summary

Somewhere, Anywhere is the second studio album by the Australian indie rockers, New Buffalo, which was released on 24 March 2007, before its founder performed and recorded under her married name, Sally Seltmann. It peaked at No. 4 on the ARIA Hitseekers Albums Chart; and was nominated for the 2007 ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album.

Reception

AllMusic's Stewart Mason wrote that the album was "the work of a musician who has found her own voice" and that Seltmann "has roots in the Aussie indie pop scene of the early '90s, but Somewhere, Anywhere, is a sparse and primarily electronic album of dreamy, minor-key tunes that trade in subtlety and delicacy".

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Somewhere, Anywhere” is album by Sally Seltmann. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Somewhere, Anywhere and album, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007. For this dossier, Somewhere, Anywhere and album is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by Sally Seltmann” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7560327. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Somewhere, Anywhere”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Somewhere, Anywhere primary sources, Somewhere, Anywhere archive and Somewhere research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Somewhere, Anywhere”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “Somewhere, Anywhere” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.