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Drastic Fantastic | 
| Artist: Kt Tunstall
Label: Relentless
Category: Music
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Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 432
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
MPN: 95618
UPC: 094639561827
EAN: 0094639561827
ASIN: B000RLIYZA
Release Date: September 10, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Little Favours | | • | If Only | | • | White Bird | | • | Funnyman | | • | Hold On | | • | Hopeless | | • | I Don't Want You Now | | • | Saving My Face | | • | Beauty Of Uncertainty | | • | Someday Soon | | • | Paper Aeroplane |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
As the sleeve of Drastic Fantastic, a shot of a wildly posing Kate Tunstall, suggests, the Scot never expected to find herself following up a multi-million selling debut. But her second official album, again produced by Steve Osborne, is an impressive piece of work, edgy enough to please those who delighted in her gleeful live shows yet suitably smooth for fans recruited via radio play. Unsurprisingly some of the songs on Drastic Fantastic is can be read as musings on fame, notably the catchy first single "Hold On" and the cleverly constructed Sixties-style pop of "Hopeless". Elsewhere "White Bird" is haunting and downbeat, while the propulsive "folk-punk" (her phrase) of "I Don't Want You Now" is apparently intended as a musical tribute to Tunstall's obvious precursor, the late Kirsty MacColl. The excellent `Saving My Face' welds a moody stadium rocker to a chord progression familiar from the chorus of Slade's timeless "Cum on Feel the Noize", a neat trick which pretty much encapsulates Tunstall's ability to combine the fragile and hearty in equal measures. By the time the understated, quietly epic "Beauty of Uncertainty" and the accordion-led "Paper Aeroplane", a quirky folk song not miles from her erstwhile comrades in Scotland's amorphous Fence Collective, bring proceedings to a close, the listener's relief is palpable. Making an intelligent, radio-friendly pop album with a real heart is difficult enough once, but managing the trick again proves her talent is genuine. --Steve Jelbert
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| Customer Reviews: Read 44 more reviews...
 brilliantly fantastic September 27, 2008
a perfect album, each track is as good as the last...keep up the good work kt
Great Pop May 6, 2008
The first thing I noticed about this album was how much poppier it was than her debut, but that's not a bad thing. Sure there will be those who cry sell-out with this album but that couldn't be further from the truth. KT manages to go full on pop and keep what made her great.
The album takes a while to get going with "Little Favours" and "If Only" managing to sound decent-good but without sounding special and seem slightly uninspired. The next track "White Bird" shows KT has not lost her way but again it is only a good song, nothing special at all.
The album finally comes into its own with "Funnyman" a brilliant pop songs which I loved from first listen, "Hold On" (the album's first single) is similar in that it's incredibly catchy and brilliant. "Hopeless" and "I Don't Want You Now" are great tracks not as good as the preceding two but they grow on me more and more with every listen. "Saving My Face" is another brilliant fast pop song that I loved at first listen.
"Beauty Of Uncertainty" shows that KT can still write great, beautiful, slow songs and "Someday Soon" again strengthens this fact. "Paper Aeroplane" is a nice end to the album, a good (but not great) slow-paced song.
Overall, I'd give this album a 4/5, at its best it's brilliant pop at its worst it is decent and sounding slightly uninspired, but there are no bad songs on the album and it is well worth picking up.
I have just one thing to complain about, the fact that "Journey" was a mere b-side, the song is easily better than half the album and really should be on it but at least it was released.
Subtle and deep April 25, 2008
When I first heard Eye of the Telescope half the tracks immediately appealed to me but after playing it a few times I found, if anything I liked the sublteties and depth of the tracks that did not orignally catch the ear. The same can be said for Drastic Fantastic. Its a different sound from ETT and this might put you off if you expect more of the same. Play the tracks a few times however and that depth of music and lyrics come through again. There is no doubt that KTT is a very special musician and the more you listen to her music, the more you get out of it. An excellent disc.
Trouser Wobbler February 29, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
What a honey KT Tunstall is. Nevermind the music, I just want to have her babies. I mean, I want her to have mine and ...errrmm, if she er.. if she wants to that is. Yes, if she wants to then... I.. don't.. really.. mind. Errr..... Hmmm.
Terrible title, good album February 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Firstly, can I just say what an awful title for an album Drastic Fantastic is? Thank you. OK, now I've got that out of the way, it only seems fair that I discuss KT's follow-up to her drastically fantastic (sorry!) 'Eye To The Telescope'.
Her debut was such a strong body of work that it was always going to be difficult replicating the success of a debut so long in the making and coming up with another set of songs as strong as those she had been composing and performing for a number of years. Disappointingly, if maybe a little predictably, this album isn't as good as 'Eye To The Telescope', but given the quality of the songs on her first album, it may have been a bit of a steep ask.
This is, however, a very good album indeed and does more than enough to establish KT as an artist whose third album will be anticipated perhaps nearly as much as this one. 'Drastic Fantastic' is full of rich melodies, some wonderful harmonies and has a slightly harder edge than her previous work. Some critics declared it overproduced, but if you compare it with the the majority of work on the contemporary charts, that claim is almost laughable.
This is an enjoyable rock/pop/folk album with a handful of very good tracks, namely 'Little Favours', 'If Only', 'Funnyman', 'Hold On', 'Hopeless' and 'Paper Aeroplane' even if there is nothing on this album that could be hailed as a genuine classic. This is an album that, if you found it at a bargain price, you'd probably be extremely pleased with it, but anyone expecting an album just as good as her highly rated debut may find themselves a little deflated.
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