If the art of the female singer-songwriter revolves around coffee table soliloquies then Eye To The Telescope--the debut album from Edinburgh-born chanteuse / guitarist KT Tunstall--is a pleasing mediation between the traditional demands of brooding egocentricity (espresso) and frothy commerciality (cappuccino). KT Tunstall has star quality. "Suddenly I See" is an effortlessly liberating pop fillip while, conversely, "False Alarm" redresses Abba's "The Winner Takes It All" for losers who had nothing to lose to begin with. However, Tunstall isn't entirely convinced by the compromise ( "I'm struggling to cater for the space I'm meant to fill" she sings) and "Miniature Disasters"--one of several strong numbers showcasing her aptitude for wrapping up pop tunes in either folky bluesiness or ponderous jazz--catalogues her desires for unfettered self-expression. The opening cut "Other Side Of The World" might sound like Dido without the giftwrapped grief (she's none too flattered with the comparisons) but Eye To The Telescope is spiritually closer to Carol King and Elvis Costello than Katie Melua. And that's no bad thing. --Kevin Maidment

Only you know your musical tastes and what you like in performers. I have the most eclectic tastes in music imaginable. KT Tunstall gives it all you could ever want from this genre. Simply outstanding on all levels.

Just imagine busking on a street in Glasgow and next thing Rod Stewart stops and listens to you, takes your hand and says "Girl, you're coming on stage with me tonight". That's what happened to KT. I remember watching that show on telly and she was so nervous it was unreal but she got through it. I love this album. I love KT - end of story! She brings a real freshness to music and challenges everything we accept as norm. Great voice. Great music. Actually, when you're listening to this album, think of the story she tells of her father:
He used to work in an observatory and any night that something amazing was happening in the skies he took KT and her brother up to the observatory. She recalls many a night watching comets, meteor storms etc. But the story she told on BBC2 was about her father putting her and her brother on a trolley and loading up the dry ice underneath the trolley and letting the dry ice go, pushing them down the corridor and shouting at them to keep their feet and hands in in case the dry ice froze them off! How cool would it be to be pushed down a corridor into the observatory to watch a meteor storm with dry ice floating all around you when you were only a kid? Love that story. Think of it every time I listen to this album. And a lot of her profits are spent on environmentally friendly projects so for this reason alone EVERYONE should buy her album. And hell, if she's good enough for Rod Stewart she's good enough for me!!!

I would describe this cd as easy listening.The tracks have a blues/folk/rock sound and KT Tunstall is a competent singer but if you were walking through a shopping centre and any of her songs featured here was played through some speakers I don't think it would grab your attention.At times she sounds like Norah Jones without the piano and
there is enough percussion to fill a tin mine.I think most people would enjoy having Eye To The Telescope playing in the background while they are doing something else.This is really music to listen while you are in an upmarket club.

I decided to get this album after watching KT Tunstall perform at the Live Earth concert and i am quite pleased i did. This album comprises a few briliant soul soothing songs and some nice upbeat songs and is just the kind of the album u want to sit back and listen to after work... loved it!

Eye to the Telescope has been in my car player for the last three weeks. What an outstanding compilation of voice and sounds to feed ones senses.
KT is a thunder storm on a hot windy night. I can only imagine the mornings, the sweet smell of her earthy naturalness must be overweling. God I love her ever changing rythums and totally different sound. Different from any other styles and as far as other females go; females? Just forget the rest of them.
All I ask is that she make it to the Southwest, Phoenix would be great but just make it somewhere down here..
Wow...