Eye To The Telescope by KT Tunstall

KT Tunstall
Eye To The Telescope
2006
Pop
Virgin

1. Other Side Of The World
2. Another Place To Fall
3. Under The Weather
4. Black Horse & The Cherry Tree
5. Miniature Disasters
6. Silent Sea
7. Universe & U
8. False Alarm
9. Suddenly I See
10. Stoppin' The Love
11. Heal Over
12. Through The Dark
(Also included is a 500x500 album cover .jpeg)

I used to talk
With honest conviction
Of how I predicted my world
I'm gonna leave it to stargazers
Tell me what your telescope says

"Through The Dark"

I started listening to KT Tunstall in 2006 when this album charted because of the success of "Suddenly I See." When my friends who were just too cool for school found out that I listened to a pop singer, they made fun of me for listening to something that they considered girly and bubblegum. I'm sorry to say that out of peer pressure I quit listening to her music just so no one would judge my music taste by it. And about half a year ago, I rediscovered her music, and I was floored. I can't believe what I was missing that whole time. This is not girly, this is not bubblegum, this is barely pop. KT Tunstall is one of the best singer-songwriters in the music industry today, and probably the absolute best that gets radio play.

I'm somewhat of a guitarist myself, and I was trying to get into "looping." It's a style of playing where you use an effects pedal to record yourself playing something in a rhythm live, then play it back infinitely and play over yourself to become a sort of one man band. In my googling for loop pedals and people who use them, I stumbled upon KT Tunstall's breakthrough performance on Later With Jools Holland, where she performed "Black Horse & The Cherry Tree" all by her lonesome, but with every layer of the song intact. She looped herself beating on her guitar to make drum noises, a miced tamborine, and her own voice, to create a totally unique sound that I had never experienced before. I strongly suggest you prowl through Youtube to find that video if you're at all on the fence about KT's musical abilities.

She's quite a guitarist. And singer. And lyricist. And overall just a fantastic musician who I absolutely love to listen to. There's not a bad song on the record, it doesn't wear itself out like most albums that you may have discovered through heavy radio rotation. She has a wonderful voice that is both powerful and soothing, and if that isn't enough, the production on all aspects of the music is great. I can't recommend this enough. Download it.

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