{"id":1566,"date":"2011-03-04T16:06:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T23:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2011-03-04T16:06:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T23:06:48","slug":"kt-tunstall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/kt-tunstall\/","title":{"rendered":"KT TUNSTALL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KTTUNSTALL-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1567\" title=\"KTTUNSTALL-M-Review-SeptOct2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KTTUNSTALL-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KTTUNSTALL-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KTTUNSTALL-M-Review-SeptOct2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>K<\/strong><strong>T TUNSTALL <\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong><strong><em>Tiger Suit <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Virgin]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">When KT Tunstall burst into the limelight with 2006\u2019s beatbox-driven hit \u201cBlack Horse and the Cherry Tree,\u201d it was clear the Scottish singer-songwriter had a firm grounding in songcraft. On her third album, Tunstall leans toward a more adventurous set of electronic textures. Happily, instead of burying her songwriting under sheets of production, the broadened soundscape enhances and enriches her compositions. \u201cUummannaq Song\u201d features a yelping background vocal and a propulsive electrobeat that underlines the singer\u2019s fantasy of quitting the business for small-town life. Likewise, on \u201cPush That Knot Away,\u201d a droning acoustic guitar intro gives way to an ominous disco beat that builds to a double-time climax\u2014one of several deft sonic curveballs Tunstall throws throughout <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Tiger Suit<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">. All this is not to say Tunstall has completely abandoned her rootsier early style. The Latin-tinged acoustic ballad \u201c(Still a) Weirdo\u201d describes the sense of displacement that Tunstall\u2014and pretty much all artistic types\u2014feel in a straitlaced world. \u2013Bob Cannon<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KT TUNSTALL Tiger Suit [Virgin] When KT Tunstall burst into the limelight with 2006\u2019s beatbox-driven hit \u201cBlack Horse and the Cherry Tree,\u201d it was clear the Scottish singer-songwriter had a firm grounding in songcraft. On her third album, Tunstall leans toward a more adventurous set of electronic textures. Happily, instead of burying her songwriting under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1073,1062,1074,549],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}