Drastic Fantastic

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Drastic Fantastic
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Studio album by
KT Tunstall
Released10 September 2007 (2007-09-10)
Recorded2006–2007
Studio
Genre
Length39:50
Label Relentless
Producer Steve Osborne
KT Tunstall chronology
KT Tunstall's Acoustic Extravaganza
(2006)		Drastic Fantastic
(2007)		 Have Yourself a Very KT Christmas
(2007)
Singles from Drastic Fantastic
  1. "Hold On"
    Released: 16 July 2007
  2. "Saving My Face"
    Released: 12 November 2007
  3. "If Only"
    Released: 3 March 2008
  4. "Little Favours [2] "
    Released: January 2009 (Brazil only)

Drastic Fantastic is the second studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall. It features some unreleased tracks she wrote before Eye to the Telescope such as new tracks she wrote in 2003. The record was released by Relentless Records on 10 September 2007 in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe, on 15 September in Australia, and 18 September 2007 in the United States and Canada. However, the album was leaked on P2P networks on 3 September 2007.

Contents

Some additional tracks features other unreleased songs such as "Mothgirl", "Bad Day" and "Journey", and during the Drastic Fantastic Tour, Tunstall covered "La Vie En Rose", which is on the U.K Bonus tracks, "My Sharona", The Bangles' "Walk Like an Egyptian" and Chaka Khan's "Ain't Nobody" which features on the DVD. Also, three singles were taken from Drastic Fantastic: "Hold On", the lead single, "Saving My Face" and "If Only", which all charted in the UK Top 100.

On the US Billboard 200 chart, Drastic Fantastic debuted at number nine, selling about 50,000 copies in its first week, and sold around 225,000 copies in 2007. [3]

The album was reissued on 15 January 2021 in vinyl, triple-disc, and digital formats as Drastic Fantastic: Ultimate Edition, consisting of previously unreleased songs and remixes. [4]

Artwork

According to Tunstall, the album cover is based on Suzi Quatro. [5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 68/100 [6]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau-dud.svg [8]
Entertainment.ie Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [11]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [12]
The Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [13]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [14]

The album received warm, though conservative, praise by most critics. Music critics from The Observer gave Drastic Fantastic five stars, stating the album was "bursting with so many hits that Tunstall's comic-book life is about to go stratospheric". [11] Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone gave the album three-and-a-half stars out of five, and said that the album's sound was a "flashback" to 1997 by noting similarities between the songs on Drastic Fantastic and songs written 10 years earlier. [12] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic gave the album four out of five, calling Drastic Fantastic "a rare beast: a pop album with a songwriter's heart". [7]

However, some critics were less impressed, stating that the album was overproduced and lacked the "folksy" touch of her previous album Eye to the Telescope .[ citation needed ]The Guardian gave it three stars, stating "Tunstall could do better". [10]

Track listing

All tracks produced by Steve Osbourne.

All tracks are written by KT Tunstall except where noted

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Little Favours" 3:09
2."If Only"KT Tunstall, Jimmy Hogarth 3:46
3."White Bird" 3:13
4."Funnyman"KT Tunstall, Martin Terefe 2:56
5."Hold On"KT Tunstall, Ed Case2:57
6."Hopeless" 3:41
7."I Don't Want You Now" 3:48
8."Saving My Face" 3:38
9."Beauty of Uncertainty" 5:01
10."Someday Soon"KT Tunstall, Jimmy Hogarth, Samuel Dixon 3:53
11."Paper Aeroplane" 3:16
Total length:39:50
Digital bonus tracks [15]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
12."Journey" 4:39
13."La Vie en rose" (Edith Piaf cover) Louis Guglielmi, Edith Piaf 2:29
UK iTunes bonus tracks [16]
No.TitleLength
12."Bad Day"4:09
13."Suddenly I See" (Live)6:03
Australian bonus track [17]
No.TitleLength
12."Suddenly I See"3:21
Japanese bonus track [18]
No.TitleLength
12."Suddenly I See" (Live)6:03
UK Amazon MP3 bonus tracks [19]
No.TitleLength
12."Mothgirl"5:01
13."Bad Day"4:09
14."Suddenly I See" (Live)6:03

In addition with the Deluxe edition, a documentary DVD with the album.

Most songs on Drastic Fantastic are not new songs. An acoustic version of "Little Favours" and "Paper Aeroplane" appeared on the 2000 demo album Tracks in July. "Little Favours" also appeared as the B-side to "Under the Weather". "If Only", "Funnyman", and "Saving My Face" appeared on the demo album Toons March '03. Finally, Tunstall mentioned writing two new songs, "Hopeless" and "White Bird", in a blog entry from 2003.

The bonus track "Journey" appeared on KT Tunstall's early band Red Light Stylus' album Roughworks, under the title "The Journey's the Thing".

The original studio version "Suddenly I See", which appeared on Tunstall's first album Eye to the Telescope in 2004, was included as a bonus track on the Australian release due to the song's popularity in the country.

Singles

The song is featured on the Brazilian soap opera Três Irmãs. [2]

"Someday Soon" is available as a single on Internet music stores such as iTunes and Rhapsody. It was featured in the film The Women in a montage featuring Annette Bening and Meg Ryan.

Personnel

Charts and certifications

Release history

RegionDate
Europe10 September 2007
Australia15 September 2007
Canada18 September 2007
United States

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