KT Tunstall

Post-Norah Jones, an album of acoustic, coffee shop folk-pop from a smoky-voiced chanteuse is nothing to write home about. Thus, on KT Tunstall's collection of B-sides, alternate versions, new material and covers (including a hazy, husky version of Beck's "Golden Age" that's lovely), the titular "Extravaganza" seems a bit hyperbolic, albeit probably intentionally. Still, the starker tracks represent a divergence from the slicker sound of her debut, and Tunstall carries them well, her simple vocals lending the album a sleepy, amiable grace.

This scottish singer-songwriter broke out early this year with an album of smoky-sweet
ballads and bluesy rock songs highlighted by the great single “Black Horse and the Cherry
Tree," on which KT Tunstall sounds like Sheryl Crow channeling a demonic, lost bluesman.
This acoustic CD/DVD repeats only two cuts from the debut, thankfully, and the mood is a
little duller than fans of the debut – and especially “Black Horse" – might hope... More >