Drastic Fantastic

KT Tunstall - Drastic Fantastic

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Artist: KT Tunstall
Brand: MLB
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-09-18
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:

Little Favours
If Only
White Bird
Funnyman
Hold On
Hopeless
I Don't Want You Now
Saving My Face
Beauty Of Uncertainty
Someday Soon
Paper Aeroplane

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Free Music Review: Drastic Fantastic indeed!
Hit: 5 Stars

I so love KT Tunstall's Eye to the Telescope that the second I saw this CD, I snapped it up with great delight. I didn't even know that she had a new CD coming out so finding this one was a bit like Christmas. The CD certainly didn't disappoint.

Tunstall's sound is hard to describe. This CD seems to have more of a rock edge to it than her previous work. I think it is my inability to fit it squarely into a genre box that makes it such a great CD for me. There are some really great guitar riffs, particularly on Little Favours. Musically, I think this CD is more inventive than Eye to the Telescope, though that one was by no means lacking in creativity. This CD is more diverse, touching on every style from rock to folk to the somewhat country flavored Hopeless. Tunstall's voice is also wonderful on this disk. Her voice sounds surer and there's no doubt that she owns this music, that it's tailor made for her. She has one of the best voices on the contemporary scene. It goes from smoky to sweet to raw and is so distinct from the manufactured pop princesses.

Tunstall's other great strength is her lyrics. She glides through her words playfully, serving to showcase the cleverness inherent in her songs. I especially love listening to her sing about "this little universe between our backs" in Little Favours. It's one of the catchiest, most colorful song lyrics I've heard in some time. Tunstall does a wonderful job of painting a scene with her words. Sometimes playful and sometimes mournful, her lyrics have an undercurrent of perceptiveness and intelligence that makes them such a joy to listen to.

In short, Tunstall has been a long time in the coming. After having to suffer a long line of undertalented and overexposed Barbie wannabes, it's a marvel to have a genuine musician to enjoy.

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Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall burst onto the public consciousness last year with her gritty debut album Eye to the Telescope, a provocative sonic mesh of heartfelt pop, rootsy, electric blues, and left-field alt-rock. Eye spawned three hit singles ? the Grammy-Award nominated "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree," "Suddenly I See," and "Other Side of the World" ? all of which became omnipresent on radio, television, movies, and the Internet. Thanks to the multi-media exposure, Eye is certified platinum in the U.S., with worldwide sales exceeding 3.5 million copies.

Now Tunstall is readying her follow-up, entitled Drastic Fantastic, which will be released by Virgin Records on September 18th, 2007. It showcases the 31-year-old's growth as both a songwriter and musician on songs like the thumping "Hold On," the rollicking "Saving My Face," the jazz-inflected "Someday Soon," and the frisky pop gem "I Don?t Want You Now." "I wanted to be braver," Tunstall says of the album. "I wanted to push the musicality. You can't let previous success scare you away from moving on."

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