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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #702 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

An Artist with better things to come
To this 70 year old seasoned record collector, and lover of good voclalists, Katie Melua comes as a breath of fresh air amongst so much dross that passes for music today. She looks good, and she sounds good, which makes for a splendid combination. There is however one problem. She is worthy of better material than she tackles. Most of it will be long forgotten, before Ms. Melua, who I hope and believe, will eventaully move into the standard repertoire. Indeed, there is a small sign here of here making that leap, by the inclusion of 'Blues in the Night', which is far and away the best track on this CD. The tune is much much older than Ms. Melua, and has proved it's durablity. Let us hope that in the future, she will explore tunes by Gershwin, Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter etc., because that is where her true talent lies. Four stars then for her voice, but apart from the track I have mentioned, the rest is just not in the same league

not as good as CALL OFF THE SEARCH.
Not strictly a bad album and it does grow on you regarding certain songs but comparing to CALL OFF THE SEARCH, this in comparison is a bit dissapointing-So in conclusion worth a listen but I wouldant personally recommend as a brilliant must have album.
Get katie at her best with CALL OFF THE SEARCH which i find absolutely brilliant.

brilliant piece by piece
this is a fantastic album by the amazing singer katie melua. unlike many artists she can acctually sing very well live, which helps.
a must buy for any cd rack/ipod/collection