KT Tunstall Returns With New Album And Summer UK Tour
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Written by Jon Stickler
Multi-platinum selling singer songwriter KT Tunstall is set to release her much-anticipated fourth studio album ‘Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon’ through Virgin Records on 10th June. Click here to preorder the album.
‘Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon’ represents a return to the delicate simplicity of her early work and an evolution of her sound, with its country-folk tinged undercurrents. Travelling to Tucson, Arizona to record her new album with alt-country leading light Howe Gelb (AKA Giant Sand) KT describes the stunning album as "full of songs from the heart”.
The album is made up from two sessions with a season in between them, and KT saw the work as naturally separated into two distinct parts - an 'a' side and a 'b' side. The first batch sees songs like the exquisite ‘Made Of Glass’ and ‘Yellow Flower’ focusing on the themes of mortality, a subject close to her heart following the passing away of her Father last year. The second batch evokes an ethereal mood, more reflective of deeply felt changes in outlook and shifts in her personal life. Together they add up to Tunstall's most cohesive and affecting album to date.
The first single from ‘Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon’ will be ‘Feel It All’, released in conjunction with the album on 10th June. An intimate alt-country/bluesy track about loss, it is shot through with insistent melodies and heartfelt lyrics that are some of KT’s most personal.
Since scoring a worldwide hit with her debut album 'Eye To The Telescope' in 2005, which went on to sell more than 4 million copies worldwide and over 1.8m in the UK alone (and a million plus in the US), KT has remained at the forefront of UK singer-songwriter talent.
Two critically acclaimed albums, 'Drastic Fantastic' and 'Tiger Suit' followed in 2007 and 2010 respectively, keeping the platinum sales rolling and cementing the Scottish songtress’s reputation as a major recording talent, as well as a mesmerising live artist.
To co-incide with the album announcement, KT is also announcing a string of solo live dates in June.
May 17th - Penzance Minack Theatre
May 25th - Wales, Hay on Wye
June 17th - Leeds City Varieties
June 19th - Glasgow Oran Mor
June 20th - London Islington Town Hall
June 21st - Dublin Pepper Canister
20th July – Nottingham Splendour Festival
21st July – Salisbury Larmer Tree Festival
July 26th - Scotland, Wickerman Festival
July 27th - Cambridge Folk Festival
Sept 1st - Kingham, Jamie Oliver’s Big Feastival
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‘Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon’ represents a return to the delicate simplicity of her early work and an evolution of her sound, with its country-folk tinged undercurrents. Travelling to Tucson, Arizona to record her new album with alt-country leading light Howe Gelb (AKA Giant Sand) KT describes the stunning album as "full of songs from the heart”.
