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| Tell a Friend Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:01 pm Post subject: KT Tunstall – Drastic Fantastic – A Review |
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KT Tunstall – Drastic Fantastic – A Review
By Jay Morey
No woman as paid more dues in the current British music scene than KT Tunstall. Following up the surprisingly terrific and multi-selling debut album Eye To The Telescope, the feisty Scottish songbird serves up a very well crafted and listenable follow-up.
The non-conforming rock chick released a very catchy and airplay hammered first single, Hold On. It is a very divine sampler of the upbeat folk rock drowned disc. But in next track Hopeless, she’s her in a reflective and honest mood, saying she does suffer from doubts. It’s not a mask of false modesty, it’s an artist stating she does have moments of insecurity like all of us, but she rides it through and doesn’t allow it to take over.
Saving My Face is a melodious up-tempo ballad about finding it hard to live within the skin she finds herself slipped within, what with all the new media attention focused upon her. But that is the beauty of KT Tunstall; she came from singing in hotels and dingy bars and still seems to have that earthy quality that makes people relate to her and set her aside from other smoky late-night turns. Whereas other less talented females let the never-ending cavalcade of stylists and hangers-on drench them in false compliments and hype, Ms. Tunstall retains her girl-next door image, never looking comfortable in make-up or dresses.
Of course the staple of her success is her flawless and pure voice. Best example on Drastic Fantastic can be found on track 3, White Bird, a gentle semi-acoustic tune of the wistfulness of being. Overall it’s a head-nodder and get-up-and-dance collection of extremely well-produced songs. A deeper but worthy successor to the album that bought us the fabulously catchy Suddenly I See. |
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