Katie Melua

Album Review: Piece By Piece

Piece by Piece, the second album from Georgia-born-chanteuse-cum-naturalised-Brit Katie Melua, begins teasingly with the soft-pedaled “come hither” jazz flirtations of “Shy Boy” and concludes with the whispering philosophical torch-song resignation of “I Do Believe in Love.” The two songs represent opposite ends of the emotional spectrum–sultry and kittenish on the one hand, solitary and ruminative on the other–but they also offer clues that the cutesy, crazy, easy listening Melua of Mike Batt’s mentorship may be gradually acceding to the full bloom of self-determined musical adulthood.
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Audio: LiveDaily Song of the Day: Katie Melua – ‘If The Lights Go Out’
April 20, 2009

The Song of the Day is “If The Lights Go Out,” which appears on her forthcoming release, “Pictures.”
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