Best album since Piece By Piece

The problem with Katie Melua-albums, the publication frequency. Just one and a half years after their last album Ketevan will appear. As you come quickly to the temptation to be the tired and fasten all the high standard of the first two CD's. Since helps the trick is to pretend you hear this singer for the first time. I tried - and I'm thrilled. And also involving the entire KM discography I come to the conclusion that Ketevan is the best album since the two initial albums.

The melodies are varied and have again this special magic. Perhaps you need a few passages and should not be tempted to speed through zapping. The instrumentation is done by hand. Whether guitar, bass, brass or percussion instruments: everything sits on the point. The large orchestra cutlery is used where it is simply offering, for example in the 60s film divas sound a la Chace me. Absolutely sovereign slides Katie through styles of several decades. Stark is at the - what I would call contemporary ballads. Pretty cool she interpreted to Shake Shiver and palatable idiot School leaves the 20s / 30s resurrected (Hammer!) - Just terrific. Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester would also have this piece of their joy.

It took me once infected, this Katie Melua-Virus. What I hear reminds me of the early days indeed. You have to like this kind of music. Who does this and gets involved in Ketevan, is not rewarded in my opinion, disappointed and with a bärenstarkten album.