Track Listing

1. Little Favours
2. If Only
3. White Bird
4. Funnyman
5. Hold On
6. Hopeless
7. I Don't Want You Now
8. Saving My Face
9. Beauty Of Uncertainty
10. Someday Soon
11. Paper Aeroplane

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1216 in Music
• Released on: 2007-09-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Amazon.com
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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Don't be put off by the cover photo on K.T. Tunstall's follow-up to the four-million selling Eye of the Telescope. Yes, it's startling to see her sporting Buck Rogers boots and wielding a glittery, oversized silver guitar. And what's up with the comic book images that make up the CD booklet? But if Tunstall is feeling a bit like her overnight success is something out of interplanetary fiction, the new graphic "positioning" doesn’t mean the Scottish singer-songwriter has gone full-blown, diva-fied pop-rock. Rather, she's built on the success of the euphorically catchy "Suddenly I See" and "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" to craft the bouncy kiss-off of "I Don't Want You Now," and the hypnotic beat of "Hold On," with its lyrical warning (shades of Bob Marley's "Judge Not") of karma and responsibility. The new repertoire, like her sensual, slightly slurred singing, is more authoritative, polished, and less bluesy and rough-edged as Eye…, despite a British urban influence. But Tunstall paves her continuum by again using producer Steve Osborne (U2, New Order, Happy Mondays), and with two songs she recorded for the first album--the driving pop-rock of the anti-plastic surgery anthem "Saving My Face" (with its irresistible "ooh-oohs" lifting the mood), and "Funnyman," a pop-alt-folk sonic blend that flirts with electronica. Best of all, Tunstall, who veers from playing a little electric lead guitar to ukulele on the album, is decidedly intent on reprising the spare framework of the songwriter. "White Bird," the most memorable of the four songs that spotlight her poetic, pensive side, amounts to a meditation ("Half of you is heavenly/Showing off your purity"). But whether meant as a metaphor or a literal descriptive paean, a la the romantic 19th-century poets, this melancholy, quiet song finds the 32-year-old musician more confident and on top of her craft than anything on her delicious debut. On the whole, then, this solid sophomore album isn't really such a "drastic" turn. But you just might agree with the second half of her title. --Alanna Nash

Customer Reviews

KT Tunstall_ one of the greatest female artist of all time
(In America) it is incredibly hard to know who the real artist are. The industry promotes so many over glamorized puppets, that we start to assume that all good looking artist must be fakes. This is not the case with KT Tunstall. Like Elvis, she has incredible musical talent, singing talent, and happens to be good looking. I was lucky enough to see her recently in concert and I swear she sounds (vocally and musically) even better live than on her album.

Drastic Fantastic is a really great album, which compliments her first album Eye to the Telescope very nicely. All of the tracks are good, but my two favorites are "If only" and "Hopeless".

If you liked the great alternative sound of the 1990's, give KT a listen.

Almost Fantastic
KT Tunstall has become one of my favorite female artists quite quickly. I loved the Telescope CD, the Acoustic CD, and then with Drastic Fantastic here it continues to add to the catalog of great songs.
I still have a difficult time getting into slower tracks like "White Bird", "Someday Soon", and "Paper Aeroplanes" even after repeated listens I tend to skip those tracks. I do appreciated the slower songs, it's just the mood perhaps set by the other tracks that makes me wanna avoid the detour into this area. It's not that the songs are bad, it's just not my speed...but in time I may come to appreciate them....I just have a good time rocking out to her more upbeat tunes more often than the others.

My fav right now is "If Only", that one along with "Little Favour" is a great way to kick off the CD I think, "Saving My Face", and "Funnyman are a couple other up tempo favs along with "I Don't Want You Now". "Hold On" is a song I like somewhat, but it doesn't grab me quite like the other up tempo songs.

Overall some nice material that is continuing on what she accomplished on Eye To The Telescope. Which is the better CD I'm not really sure at this point, both are near perfect....not quite there yet perhaps, but she's putting out so much great material so soon, it's hard to keep up perhaps.

She has a great voice, great talent. It's nice to hear the real deal more often, there are more and more female artist out there who are making their own music their way, and it's good to know it can be done, and KT along a handful of others are in a class by themselves right now.

Couple of good tunes.
I think KT kicks major a--.
Drastic Fantastic feels a little rushed.
There are a couple of good tunes, perhaps if she took a little hiatus she can return to her greatness, but lets face it, great songs are a rareity and KT has already had many moments of greatness.
"Mr. GLM" White Plains, NY