Posted September 22, 200618 yr Tunstall Goes Back To Basics For New Album Billboard.com September 22, 2006, 3:05 PM ET Having already gone gold with her debut Virgin effort, "Eye to the Telescope," which includes hit singles "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" and "Suddenly I See," Scottish singer/songwriter KT Tunstall sees change in the air for her next project. "Although it's definitely moved on, it's not a radical change," Tunstall tells Billboard.com. "I still feel like there is unfinished business with what I'm doing at the moment. The second album sort of feels like the next half of a book rather than a totally different book. So working with [producer] Steve [Osborne] again, we're just going to kind of up the ante. But I definitely foresee changes." Recording got underway in July in a small London studio before Tunstall moved on to the famed Rockfield Studios, used by Led Zeppelin, Queen and more. Unexpectedly, recording in the expansive Wales venue proved to be a bit overwhelming. "We've done some demos in a brilliant gnarly little London studio near where I live and we came up with this amazing vibe," Tunstall says. "So [at Rockfield] we were just constantly trying to emulate this vibe that we got in this little studio and couldn't get it. We just thought, 'What are we doing? Let's just go back and make it in the tiny little place.'" She adds, "I'm really excited about that because the first album was made in the middle of the country, so I'm now looking at making an album in London. I think the city will always find its way under the door of the studio and imbed itself in what you're doing." Among the tracks completed from both sessions are the up-tempo "Saving My Face" and the spooky "Beauty of Uncertainty." The as-yet-untitled album is tentatively slated for a late spring or early summer 2007 release. Currently, the 31-year-old singer is back in the States on tour, including a show tonight (Sept. 22) at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago, I.L. Aside from "Eye to the Telescope" material and a cover of the Flaming Lips' "She Don't Use Jelly," fans can expect to hear songs "Ashes" and "One Day" from her unplugged album "Acoustic Extravaganza," which was released last spring and is only available through her Web site. However, they're going to have to wait to sample any of the new material. "The new ones we're avoiding playing during the tour because we really don't want to get into bad habits before we've recorded stuff," Tunstall says. "We really want to be able to approach it fresh and make sure that we're playing the right parts." Who bought KT. Tunstall's debut album & who is looking forward to her follow-up?
September 23, 200618 yr yeah I bought her debut album and although it was good, tbh I think that all the five singles she released from it were by far the best songs on the album and the album only singles were quite weak.
September 23, 200618 yr I bought it too and really loved it. I'm looking forward to hearing her next album.
September 23, 200618 yr I loved 'Other Side Of The World' and 'Another Place To Fall' the best out of the last album's singles, but I never felt compelled to actually buy the album for some reason.
September 25, 200618 yr Tunstall Goes Back To Basics For New Album does that mean it will be more like something on fence records like King Creosote?
September 25, 200618 yr Otherside Of The World was one of my fave songs of 2005. Absolutely beautiful.
September 26, 200618 yr I bought the first album but hardly listen to it :P lookin forward to her new material though :D
September 26, 200618 yr Everyone's going back to basics/their roots these days.. :unsure: ...Whatever that actually means..... As she's only actually done one album what does she actually mean when she says she's 'going back to basics', a statements like that would have meaning if it were from a band like, say, REM or U2, bands with a large body of work behind them, coming from someone who's done a grand total of one album, it really means nothing.... ...Unless of course she's planning to do the new album on a 4-track in her bedroom or garage or summat..... :lol:
September 26, 200618 yr yer i have it its rele good!! i cant believe its still so long to a new album :(
September 29, 200618 yr i loved her eye to the telescope album i hope she doesnt change to much in direction for the new album
September 29, 200618 yr ...Whatever that actually means..... As she's only actually done one album what does she actually mean when she says she's 'going back to basics', a statements like that would have meaning if it were from a band like, say, REM or U2, bands with a large body of work behind them, coming from someone who's done a grand total of one album, it really means nothing.... well she was part of that fence records collective up in fife with lone pidgeon and the like, so it might be all really really folky now. more like a Lou Rhodes kinda vibe
September 29, 200618 yr well she was part of that fence records collective up in fife Oh, so she will be recording the album in a barn then.... :lol: :lol: :lol:
September 29, 200618 yr My favourite album of 2005...I bought it way before she became big though and saw her in concert early last year for £8 ticket...then she became massive!!! Great singer though and I'm looking forward to her new album
September 29, 200618 yr My favourite album of 2005...I bought it way before she became big though and saw her in concert early last year for £8 ticket...then she became massive!!! Great singer though and I'm looking forward to her new album i've just bought it for £3.97. hope i dont feel that i've paid too much. its a pound more than i normally spend on maybe artists.
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