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List Price: $11.94 | | Label: Virgin Records
Salesrank: 1375
Released: February 7, 2006 |
| Our Price: $7.00 |
| Used Price: $1.25 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Eye to the Telescope Track Listing:
1. Other Side Of The World
2. Another Place To Fall
3. Under The Weather
4. Black Horse and the Cherry Tree
5. Miniature Disasters
6. Silent Sea
7. Universe & U
8. False Alarm
9. Suddenly I See
10. Stoppin' The Love
11. Heal Over
12. Through The Dark
Editorial Review:
KT Tunstall's debut album Eye To The Telescope is the creative consequence of her inquiring imagination. "My songs examine and explore little specific emotions or situations or stories," she explains. "They're kitchen table songs, like a conversation between me and one other person. It's almost like an alien has been sent to get emotional samples from human beings and put it all together on a record."
KT Tunstall Photos
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Description of Eye to the Telescope:
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 Carole King and Elvis Costello than Katie Melua. And that's no bad thing. --Kevin Maidment
Eye to the Telescope Reviews:
Commercial Sell-out 
2009-12-08 - Tunstall has joined the long list of "performers" who have sold out to advertising. And for a bank, no less. The very institution that tries everything legal (but not ethical) to take your money. Want to hear Tunstall's music? Just listen to a Chase Manhatten commercial. Or better yet, rip a copy from a friend. Screw you Tunstall, you're a copout.
Never to old to discover 
2009-11-13 - a great CD. I have heard of KT Tunstall but never really had the want to get her album. I am a 1956 gal and what I grew up with is what I like and want. I heard about her with the black horse and a cherry tree. Did not understand that song, but it was catchy. Now that song has been out for how long and I finally am checking out KT.
Within the past two months, I was going on Amazon to listen to music and she popped up. Well I listened to the samples and by golly, I liked the upbeat and bought it. This CD has been with me at work and my car and I have yet to get tired of it. As another reviewer wrote..hard to categorize, but upbeat, not loud, easy to sing to. This gal has broken my mold of music that I listened to in the past.
Great Seller
2009-09-12 - Great seller. CD was in exact condition as described. No problems. Shipment was fast. Would definitely do business with again.
I bought this album by chance! 
2009-08-12 - I'm glad I took a chance and discovered that all modern music is not bad. I discovered this back when Black Horse and Cherry Tree was the single before Devil Wears Prada made Suddenly I see popular. If you like good music, then get this album I cannot stress this enough!
A gifted Story Teller
2009-06-21 - Here's a gifted woman who not only sings with her own distinctive style, but creates compositions with psychological savvy.
