★★★★★
Instinctively moving ahead of the curve as "real instruments" started making appearances on the pop charts, KT Tunstall completes the transformation from indie cover girl to a new singer-songwriter-themed release. Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon is 13 acoustic-guitar-and-piano-based compositions that meander along like the prairie winds that blew outside the Arizona studio where they were recorded...
- filtermagazine.com
2013-08-09
★★★★★
KT Tunstall strikes for cathartic folk on her fourth disc
On Invisible Empire / Crescent Moon , KT Tunstall slows things down a great deal. It's quite the departure for an artist who once described her debut album as "girl stomp". This fourth album sees most of the stomp washed away in the wake of quiet reflection. Tunstall has done this before, certainly, but usually when buffered by more energetic numbers such as "Fade Like a Shadow" to add some much needed variety...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-09-04
★★★★★
KT Tunstall strikes for cathartic folk on her fourth disc
On Invisible Empire / Crescent Moon, KT Tunstall slows things down a great deal. It's quite the departure for an artist who once described her debut album as "girl stomp". This fourth album sees most of the stomp washed away in the wake of quiet reflection. Tunstall has done this before, certainly, but usually when buffered by more energetic numbers such as "Fade Like a Shadow" to add some much needed variety...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-08-09
★★★★★
?????????? You will not see this coming. Throw out everything you remember about KT Tunstall and her previous records because none of it applies here. For all intents and purposes, with her latest record, she has completely scrapped her previous discography as if to start afresh and take her career in a new direction...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2013-08-06
★★★★★
Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall reemerges with a fourth record that takes her back to basics in order to find the essence of her music. This elegant, elegiac disc is filled with emotionally direct, expressive songs confronting loss and mortality. Howe Gelb produces with a light touch to heighten the intimacy of Tunstall's vocals. The music is spare yet evocative, making for the perfect aural correlative to the introspective lyrics...
- www.bostonglobe.com
2013-08-07
★★★★★
Captured on reel-to-reel tape during sessions captured a few months apart, IE//CM is a far cry from Tunstall's pop comfort zone. Rather, it's a twangy, lost-and-found meditation on the reciprocity between death - she lost her father last year - and the rebirth of finding new, unexpected love. What results is a pared-down song cycle of surprising depth and understated, old-timey elegance...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-07-26
★★★★★
KT Tunstall's fourth album is by some distance her best, offering a series of deeply-felt musings on mortality, mercy and memory. Recorded at Howe Gelb's Wavelab Studio in Arizona in two sessions separated by a season - hence the different titles for the separate "sides" - it reflects her response to the death of her father, the first side's sensitive, reactions gradually supplanted by a new emotional light as her branches become strong enough to "play with the wind" and "carry the snow" again...
- www.independent.co.uk
2013-08-06
★★★★★
There was an experiment with a near-electro album in 2010, and that was enough to send KT Tunstall in the opposite direction for this record. The sparse, countrified tone is new for her - it was recorded in Arizona, with Howe Gelb producing - but fits the reflective mood of the songs, half of them written after her father suddenly died and her marriage ended. The hallmark is delicacy: every song feels fragile...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-06-07
★★★★★
The bouncing country blues vibe of Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall has, for the most part, all but gone. Tiger Suit wears a different skin than her previous recordings, and the highs and lows are obvious. Some blues still rocks and rolls beneath certain tracks, but it's masked by '80s percussion, synthy pop and dance beats that sound like they should be backing a hit, but with a tendency to irritate...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
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