★★★★★
For her latest album, Secret Symphony, embraces songs old and new, cleverly chosen and winningly sung. She makes each song her very own, so much so that one wouldn't know that her cover versions hadn't been written for her. She is ably assisted by , whose long experience as a songwriter and producer is evident...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Katie Melua always had an air of The Stepford Wives about her. Inoffensive, house trained, porcelain pretty, scandal free. Her three polite albums sailed through the night scooping up squillions of sales despite nobody actually remembering any of the tunes. The only thing witnesses recalled when asked were Melua's chucklesome lyrics--prime offenders being "If you were a piece of wood / I'd nail you to the floor" and "You set me free, as if you'd taken me / Halfway up the Hindu Kush". Fnar, fnar...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Still a mystery in the US, 24-year-old singer-songwriter-guitarist Katie Melua continues to polish the melodies that surround her modest romantic observations, creating an emotional arc that's stronger on "Pictures" than her two previous albums. The smoothness in the arrangements, however, results in an album too gussied up, an attempt to move her out of the sandbox with the likes of big-voiced, emotionally wrecked singers such as Brandi Carlile and place her alongside pop chanteuses...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Very rarely do I find myself so completely captivated with the sound of a new CD as I have become with this latest offering from Georgia-born chanteuse, Katie Melua. That's Georgia the country, not Georgia the state. This collection of light jazz, soft blues, and smoking, sultry reinterpretations is a CD that you'll need to keep apart from the rest of your collection, as proximity may cause the rest of your CDs to melt from the sizzle...
- www.the-trades.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Having reached the fourth album in her career, I think that it's about time that young Katie Melua broke free from her some-what creative restraints. It's no secret that the majority of her work has been co-written by Dramatico label owner, Mike Batt. And yes, on The House he is still present, but fortunately on only one track this time around...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Katie Melua always had an air of The Stepford Wives about her. Inoffensive, house trained, porcelain pretty, scandal free. Her three polite albums sailed through the night scooping up squillions of sales despite nobody actually remembering any of the tunes. The only thing witnesses recalled when asked were Melua's chucklesome lyrics—prime offenders being "If you were a piece of wood / I'd nail you to the floor" and "You set me free, as if you'd taken me / Halfway up the Hindu Kush". Fnar, fnar...
- www.popmatters.com
2010-08-24
★★★★★
Katie Melua's rise to success took many people aback. The 19 year old rose without trace to become the biggest selling album artist of 2004, seemed to be a permanent fixture on daytime Radio 2 and revitalised the career of one Mike Batt, a man previously famous primarily for the song Remember You're A Womble...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Some album reviews should be easy. Take, for example, the news that Katie Melua has a new release. Line up a few catty phrases about tortured vowels, nonsensical lyrics proclaimed as though infused with universal profundity, and Wombles songwriter Mike Batt is involved, and bish-bosh, there's your one-star review. So it comes as a bit of a challenge, when on listening to the album, one has to sheath one's claws and admit to quite liking it. It's a relief that Mike Batt barely features...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
One of Europe's top-selling female artists, England-based, Georgia-born Katie Melua is virtually unheard of anywhere else. Considering the tacky fluff that often dominates continental pop, evidenced each year by the appalling parade of the Eurovision song contest, this might not seem like the greatest loss...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2010-08-16
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