Product Description

'Call Off The Search' is the debut album from Georgia born singer/songwriter Katie Melua. Produced and co-written by Mike Batt, the album is a mix of contemporary adult pop, jazz,blues and world music. The single 'The Closest Thing To Crazy' is also included.

Track Listing

1. Call Off The Search
2. Crawling Up A Hill
3. The Closest Thing To Crazy
4. My Aphrodisiac Is You
5. Learnin' The Blues
6. Blame It On The Moon
7. Belfast
8. I Think It's Going To Rain Today
9. Mockingbird
10. Tiger In The Night
11. Faraway Voice
12. Lilac Wine

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #778 in Music
• Released on: 2003-11-03
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
No doubt 18-year-old Katie Melua has got used to being tagged "the next Norah Jones". After all, the similarities between her debut, Call Off the Search, and Jones's own five-Grammy-winning Come Away with Me more than support the comparison. Both feature precociously graceful and accomplished singers swirling through a haze of sweetly sensual sways--warm, slurred and gloriously lazy--and both certainly belong in the same stress-relieving rack in the easy-listening section. Yet to view Melua as a soundalike is to miss the strength and allure of her own distinctive character. Hers is intimate contemplation spiced with the jazzy drama of an off-Broadway musical. From the flamboyant inflections of her voice and the drowsy orchestra backing "The Closest Thing to Crazy" and "Learnin' the Blues", to the honky-tonk seduction of "My Aphrodisiac Is You", there's a street-smart attitude to her tender swoon that means the image of a dimly lit basement is never far away. With the velvety lounge of "Blame It on the Moon", the dreamy romance of the title track and the devilish blues of "Crawling Up a Hill", it's an eccentric and charming collection that very much stands Melua as a talent in her own right. --Dan Gennoe

Customer Reviews

NICE DEBUT ALBUM FROM KATIE
VERY NICE EASY TO LISTEN TO ALBUM DISPLAYING TRAITS OF JAZZ/BLUES IN ITS MILDEST FORMS-VERY NICE TO LISTEN TO FOR A RELAXING CHILL OUT HOUR OR IN THE CAR.
OVERALL I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS ALBUM

Grating
I honestly don't think this woman can sing. "Closest Thing to Crazy" drives me nuts, her voice sidles up to the notes and grates. Part of the time she's not even in tune. I used to turn Wogan off every time he plugged this because its just so irritating.

Please don't insult the likes of Joni Mitchell, Piaf and Carole King by mentioning her in the same breath.

So what, I'm well into my sixties
I have no idea what the previous reviewers are going on about. Anyway, I claim superiority over all of the daft buggers, since I've recently hurtled into my 65th year. So there!

Katie's album is a delight. She's no Ella or Billie or Nina - not yet anyway - but that's not to say she won't approach those heights eventually. I have a feeling that she will and I'm hoping to survive untl she does.

I saw her on "Buzzcocks" after I bought her CD and all I can say is "Good on ya, pretty one. I love your album."