Eye to the Telescope

Infobox Album
Name = Eye to the Telescope
Type = Album
Artist = KT Tunstall


Released = flagicon|UK December 13, 2004
flagicon|US February 7, 2006
Recorded = Edinburgh, Scotland in 2004
Genre = Alternative
Length = 45:44
Label = Relentless, Virgin
Producer = Steve Osborne, Andy Green, Martin Terefe
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:leazqjorojha link]
* Slant Magazine Rating|3|5 [http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/music_review.asp?ID=711 link]
* [http://uk.launch.yahoo.com Yahoo! Music UK] Rating-10|7 [http://uk.launch.yahoo.com/050104/33/1xi1c.html link]
Last album = "False Alarm" (2004)
This album = "Eye to the Telescope"
(2004)
Next album = "KT Tunstall's Acoustic Extravaganza"
(2006)Singles
Name = Eye to the Telescope
Type = studio
single 1 = Black Horse and the Cherry Tree
single 1 date = February 21, 2005 (UK)
August 29, 2005 (US)
single 2 = Other Side of the World
single 2 date = May 9, 2005 (UK)
May, 2007 (US)
single 3 = Suddenly I See
single 3 date = August 29, 2005 (UK)
single 4 = Under the Weather
single 4 date = December 5, 2005 (UK)
single 5 = Another Place to Fall
single 5 date = March 13, 2006 (UK) |

"Eye to the Telescope" is the debut album by Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, originally released 13 December 2004 (see 2004 in British music), and re-released 25 January 2005. On 19 July 2005 it was nominated for the 2005 Mercury Music Prize in the United Kingdom. Tunstall promoted the album in the United States and Canada in December 2005. The album was released 7 February 2006 in the U.S. Also a special CD/DVD edition of the album was released in September 2006 in America, along with a different cover and a bonus track.

Critical reception

Reviews for "Eye to the Telescope" were mostly positive. Mark A. Price of "PopMatters" gave the album a score of 7 out of 10, noting how it manages to sound "both new and familiar", mixing influences from artists like Melissa Etheridge and Fiona Apple while adding some originality of her own. [ Mark A. Price. [http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/kt_tunstall_eye_to_the_telescope] , Pop Matters.com. Retrieved April 6, 2008. ] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of "Allmusic" gave it three and a half stars out of five, calling it "a promising, satisfying debut". [ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:leazqjorojha] , AllMusic.com. Retrieved April 6, 2008. ] On Metacritic, "Eye to the Telescope" has a score of 76 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [ [http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/tunstallkt/eyetothetelescope?q=Eye%20to%20the%20Telescope Metacritic: KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope] , metacritic.com. Retrieved July 5, 2008. ]

Track listing

# "Other Side of the World" – 3:34 "(KT Tunstall, Martin Terefe)"
# "Another Place to Fall" – 4:11 "(Tunstall)"
# "Under the Weather" – 3:37 "(Tunstall, Tommy D)"
# "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" – 2:51 "(Tunstall)"
# "Miniature Disasters" – 3:32 "(Tunstall)"
# "Silent Sea" – 3:48 "(Tunstall, Jimmy Hogarth)"
# "Universe & U" – 4:01 "(Tunstall, Pleasure)"
# "False Alarm" – 3:50 "(Tunstall, Terefe)"
# "Suddenly I See" – 3:22 "(Tunstall)"
# "Stoppin' the Love" – 4:02 "(Tunstall, Tommy D)"
# "Heal Over" – 4:27 "(Tunstall)"
# "Through the Dark" – 3:48 "(Tunstall, Terefe)"

Personnel

* KT Tunstall — vocals, guitar, wurlitzer, pianet, shelltone, piano, doepfer bass, chimes
* Steve Osborne — shelltone, bass, guitar, percussion
* Arnulf Lindner — bass
* Luke Bullen — drums, percussion, cajon
* Martin Terefe — keyboards
* Iain Burdge — cello

Charts

The album entered the UK album chart at 73 and quickly dropped out again (it originally entered the lower regions of the Top 200 in its debut week, but these placings are not officially recorded for statistical purposes). It re-entered at 66 a few weeks later, and its rise was both surprising and unique for a new album on the UK charts. It improved every week for four weeks before peaking at number 36, then dropping down as low as 63 again. It then resumed a somewhat meteoric rise, culminating in a peak of number seven before slowly shifting back down. The publicity surrounding Tunstall's Mercury Music Prize nomination sent it back up the charts to an eventual peak of No. 3, after which time it became a Top 20 mainstay for the rest of 2005. It dropped out of the Top 10 in the 61st week, and has dropped continually since, before ending its run at 72 weeks. After a several month absence, the album returned at No. 66 for a 73rd non-consecutive week in August 2006.

The singles from the album became increasingly more successful, with "Other Side of the World" spending almost five months on the chart and "Suddenly I See" remaining in the Top 40 for 10 weeks. The album's next single, "Under the Weather", entered the chart at No. 39, while the fifth and final single, "Another Place to Fall", became Tunstall's first single to miss the Top 40 after more than 1.3 million copies of the album had been sold. In total, Tunstall has spent 133 weeks so far on the British charts.

As of September 20, 2007, the album has sold 1,127,010 copies in the US. [ [http://pulsemusic.proboards48.com/index.cgi?board=gmn&action=display&thread=1190170732&page=3 Pulse Music Board - Billboard Top 200 - 9/29/07 Kanye 957K ] ]

The album was certified 5x platinum by the Irish album chart selling about 75,000 copies, and around 1.5 million copies in the UK, certifiying it 5x platinum there as well.

The album was certified platinum in Canada in January 2007. [ [http://www.cria.ca/gold/0107_g.php CRIA Gold & Platinum certifications for January 2007] . Retrieved July 25, 2007.]

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