Product Description

Katie Melua’s long awaited second album, Piece By Piece, is released nearly two years after the debut of her multi-platinum selling album, Call Off The Search. Piece By Piece demonstrates Katie’s significant growth as an artist, containing a larger percentage of self-penned songs than her first album.

Track Listing

1. Shy Boy
2. Nine Million Bicycles
3. Piece By Piece
4. Halfway Up The Hindu Kush
5. Blues In The Night
6. Spider's Web
7. Blue Shoes
8. On The Road Again
9. Thank You, Stars
10. Just Like Heaven
11. I Cried For You
12. I Do Believe In Love

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1783 in Music
• Released on: 2005-09-26
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Piece By Piece--the second album from Georgia-born chanteuse cum naturalised Brit, Katie Melua, and the successor to her multi-million selling Call Off The Search--begins teasingly with the soft-peddled "come hither" jazz flirtations of "Shy Boy" and concludes with the whispering philosophical torch song resignation of "I Do Believe In Love". The two songs represent opposite ends of the emotional spectrum--sultry and kittenish on the one hand, solitary and ruminative on the other--but they also offer clues that the cutesy, crazy, easy listening Melua of Mike Batt's mentorship may be gradually acceding to the full bloom of self-determined musical adulthood. Melua's songs are often the more fretful and organic, the ghostly title track and the lovely "I Cried for You" are especially recommended, while the bluesier numbers (particularly the cover of the classic "Blues In The Night") seem shoehorned-in gratuitously to match an anticipated demographic. Batt's contributions are melodic, memorably buoyant and childlike, the Chinese-flavoured "Nine Million Bicycles" and the naggingly catchy "Halfway Up The Hindu Kush" are both charming despite their naive, pseudo-ethnicity and currently offer, particularly when compared to something as ponderously wooly as "Spider's Web", a necessary fun counterbalance to Melua's burgeoning compositional skills.

At this stage, Piece By Piece fits together nicely like a little jigsaw puzzle. And even if it didn't, Melua would still sound simply ambrosial singing from a washing machine repair manual. --Kevin Maidment

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Customer Reviews

Katie Melua WOW!
I hate this album,why? Because if I want to put some music on whilst doing my Amazon duties,then spot this album,I just cant play anything else and keep repeating it over and over,this whole album from start to finish,improves from every listenning.Am not going to go into the merits of each individual song,enough to say that the very,very best tracks are written by Melua.
But what style this woman has,already a classic.A MUST for anyone who likes real music!
Yardbirds World.

Halfway Up The Hindu Kush
I haven't come on here to criticise Katie Melua.I recently heard a splendid version of her's covering Leonard Cohen's ' In My Secret Life ' off one of her other albums.
I have eclectic tastes in music and sometimes I don't mind this type of stuff.She can certainly deliver a song and she has quite a distinctive voice.OK so we all know about Mike Batt but don't let that put you off buying this.This album is definately not taxing on the brain and is without a doubt easy on the ear but sometimes that is just what is required.' 9 Million Bicycles..' is such a catchy tune.Katie Melua is alright with me.

Mmm ... nice
This is so mellow and dreamy. A perfect accompaniment to a 'deep' mood. Only don't listen to it whilst driving or operating heavy machinery as you'll probably find yourself falling asleep! Oh, and she has the most adorable chin cleft, not that it's evident just from listening to her singing, though. I think listening to this has cheered me up. It might work for you too!