Tiger suit — Wikipedia
Tiger Suit is the third studio album of the singer/Scottish composer KT Tunstall. The album was released in France the , the in the United Kingdom, and the in the USA.
Two singles are extracted:
Fade Like A Shadow came out in the United States the while (Still A) Weirdo The , reaching the 39 It is place of British charts. A third song, Glamour Puss , is chosen to make it a video in collaboration with Internet users, and an unofficial video of Push That Knot Away Releases two months before the album release.
Composition [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
It is said That KT Tunstall has already recorded a new album in Berlin, in the famous Studio Hansa. This is the studio where Achtung Baby of U2 and Heroes by David Bowie were recorded, so that KT Tunstall said in an interview that she had the impression that “the studio was filled with ghosts”. After three years of absence on the stage since Drastic Fantastic In 2007, the singer remained discreet until Tiger Suit , released a few months after this announcement.
Influences [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
KT Tunstall explains that the title of the album, Tiger Suit (or “the disguise of the tiger”) is inspired by a recurring dream that she made being small. In this dream, she sees a tiger in her garden, and leaves to caress him carefree. Then, when she returns inside her house, when she is safe, she is seized with terror, realizing that the tiger could have killed her. By wondering the reasons why the tiger does nothing to her, she comes to the conclusion that she may bear a tiger disguise.
She explains in an interview that she was a lesson that she kept for her musical career, laughing with the fact that her musical career could have gone wrong, and that she finds herself taken from terror, once alone, that ” Things could have gone horribly badly. ”
She invents a term to qualify the music found in Tiger Suit , she speaks of a sound that she calls “techno nature”, in the sense that she mixes dance and electro sounds with her acoustic / folk origins. She explains about this that Tiger Suit is an album that could be listened to in a nightclub, except that this nightclub would rather be around a wood fire. It is the feeling that emerges from the song Push That Knot Away . She compares her work to that of the Leftfield group in the album Leftism .
Two main singles: Fade Like A Shadow in the United States and (Still A) Weirdo UK.
Fade Like A Shadow [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
Released on , Fade Like A Shadow is the first single of Tiger Suit in the USA. The title is accompanied by a video clip directed by Paul Minor. Fade Like A Shadow became known in France, thanks to the MADMOIZELLE women’s magazine, who broadcast a video of KT Tunstall in her hotel, and qualified the song as “Pépite”: the video has been seen more than 120,000 times.
KT Tunstall declares after having turned the song clip: “I May lose some fans of the old stuff, but i get the feeling the alren made a few new ones by embracing a bit of experience. »»
The single is classified 11 It is Japanese charts.
(Still A) Weirdo [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
Released on , (Still A) Weirdo is the first single in Europe. The title is accompanied by a clip produced by Paul Minor in a small town in the United States, which, according to KT Tunstall, “would not have changed since the 1960s”.
Much calmer than the other single, (Still A) Weirdo received positive criticisms, and appeared in the British and Belgian charts in particular.
Other projects [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
One could consider Glamour Puss Like the third single, although it was not officially achieved. Nevertheless, a video in collaboration with Internet users was made, where everyone creates a different sound to give a completely different tone to the song. The video has been seen around 500,000 times on YouTube
Although the songs Come On, Get In And Lost must have been singles, the project was not prosecuted. Live performance of Glamour Puss And Come On, Get In were given by KT Tunstall on the set of Jimmy Kimmel, and a piano version of Lost has been recorded.
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Critics of Tiger Suit are rather positive, and even better than his previous album Drastic Fantastic . The magazine Times in England publishes “She Succeeds here … Triumphantly”, namely “She succeeds in this album … triumphantly”.
Journalist Stephen Thomas Erlewine for Allmusic gives to Tiger Suit A note of 4.5 out of 5, finding that it is the best album she made.
The Guardian, finds it a good way to follow Drastic Fantastic And find a more introspective dimension: the note is 4 out of 5.
Musicomh magazine also gives a note of 4 out of 5, and finds that KT Tunstall overcome its fears in terms of surpassing its musical borders, and that it has thus proven that it could be accomplished in several musical genres.
Only the newspaper The Phoenix issues a few reservations, with a note of 3.5 out of 5, deploring a lack of clarity and originality from KT Tunstall to want to mark this musical change too much.
Commercial [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
The titles Come On, Get In And Glamour Puss were used as a musical background for the promotions of two episodes of season 7 of Desperate Housewives: respectively Happy Thanksgiving And Those who behave badly , available on YouTube.
- Tiger Suit
- Uummanna’s son (Tunstall) – 3:37
- Glamour Puss (Tunstall, Greg Kurstin) 3:19
- Push That Knot Away (Tunstall) 3:46
- Difficulty (Tunstall) 4:59
- Fade Like A Shadow (Tunstall) 3:28
- Lost (Tunstall, Martin Terefe) 4:41
- Golden Frames (Tunstall) 3:46
- Come On, Get In (Tunstall, Martin Terefe) 3:40
- (Still A) Weirdo (Tunstall, Greg Kurstin) 3:40
- Madame Trudeaux (Tunstall, Linda Perry) 3:18
- The Entertainer (Tunstall, Jimmy Hogarth) 4:50
- Special DVD edition (available on the Deluxe version of Tiger Suit )
- How To Make A Tiger Suit
- Itunes Deluxe edition
- New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down (Live from the Hiro Ballroom, New York) – 4:49
- (Still A) Weirdo (Clip Vidéo)
- Fade Like a Shadow (Clip Vidéo)
- How To Make A Tiger Suit (Documentary)
- Japan edition
- New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down (Live from the Hiro Ballroom, New York) – 4:49
- It Doesn’t Have To Be Like This (Baby) – 3:09
- Official site
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