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Piece by Piece |  | Artist: Katie Melua
Label: Umvd Labels
Category: Music
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Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 4162
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 000686802
UPC: 602498576250
EAN: 0602498576250
ASIN: B000FBHCQ4
Release Date: June 6, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Shy Boy | | • | Nine Million Bicycles | | • | Piece by Piece | | • | Halfway Up the Hindu Kush | | • | Blues in the Night | | • | Spider's Web | | • | Blue Shoes | | • | On the Road Again | | • | Thankyou, Stars | | • | Just Like Heaven | | • | I Cried for You (Mary's Song) | | • | I Do Believe in Love |
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From Amazon.co.uk
Piece by Piece--the second album from Georgia-born-chanteuse-cum-naturalised-Brit Katie Melua, and the successor to her multimillion-selling Call Off the Search--begins teasingly with the soft-pedaled "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-flavored "Nine Million Bicycles" and the naggingly catchy "Halfway up the Hindu Kush" are both charming despite their naïve 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
Album Description
Exclusive Asian re-issue of her 2006 sophomore album includes three bonus tracks on the audio CD, It's Only Pain, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Acoustic Version) and Sometimes When I'm Dreaming. The bonus DVD (NTSC/Region 0) features, Piece By Piece - Moment By Moment, an 80 minute film shot during Katie's 2006 European Tour plus 'Nine Million Bicycles' (Promo Clip), 'Cried For You' (Promo Clip), 'Spider's Web' (Promo Clip) and more. Avex. 2007.
Album Details
The Sophomore Album from Chart Topping UK Singer Songwriter who Wowed Most of the World with her Arresting Debut "Call off the Search". Includes her Cover the the Cure's "Just Like Heaven".
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 Beautiful December 1, 2009
V. McTiernan (Tucson, AZ)
This album is very well laid down and the tonal quality of her voice is angelic... I highly recommend.
 Good album. February 8, 2009
David Shipman (Edmonds, WA United States)
Nice album. A little more relaxed/laid-back from Call of the Search. The two albums go well together. Look forward to more good music from Ms. Melua. Perhaps one day she will perform in the Seattle area.
A Nice Change of Pace December 14, 2008
S. Gannon (Santa Rosa, CA United States)
I stumbled across Katie Melua's song, "Nine Million Bicylces in Bejing," while looking for something else online. After hearing a sound bite, I was hooked. In some of her songs on this, her second album, Melua's voice is almost impossibly beautiful. If her lyrics were as spectacular as her vocals, she would be even more popular than she already is. Although her music is not of a genre I would ordinarily listen to, her exquisite voice puts her among my current favorites.
Diverse. November 28, 2008
Jazzy V.
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
When you're born with the ability to sing like Katie Melua, they could set a shopping list in front of you and you'll break people's hearts singing it.
Katie has a timeless voice and on her latest album she has chosen a set of blues-based songs that set it off perfectly.
Huge natural talent was always going to secure Katie Melua's future, the excellence of "Piece By Piece" will simply reinforce her arrival as major force.
Nonetheless, this offering does not surpass in beauty and success her debut album (which became Britain's biggest seller and has so far attracted three million copies world-wide).
The album does occasionally reach out to a potentially wider fanbase thanks to its ability to draw on a number of influences and remain fascinatingly diverse.
There are some self-penned tracks as well as some covers but, for the most part, it's an accomplished affair that feels as though Melua has taken her time over it.
It's also distinctly blues-based, occasionally feeling ponderous depending on the mood it catches you in at the time.
Highlights include the single, "Nine Million Bicycles", which is genuinely sweet. The track was inspired by Melua's own visit to China and some of the things she heard on the trip, thereby equating the fact that there are nine million bicycles in Beijing with the certainty she is in love.
The meandering blasts of flute that weave their way throughout lend the song a Chinese feel and make it quite enticing.
Further evidence of the album's diverse instrumention is evident on the upbeat and melodic "Thank You, Stars", which provides more heartfelt lyrics and a really nice blend of strings and mandolin.
While the kooky "Halfway Up The Hindu Kush" is another that demonstrates Melua's vocals at their most happy go lucky - it's no coincidence that all three tracks were written by the conductor, Mike Batt.
Elsewhere, Katie demonstrates a more melancholy and mature style on self-penned tracks such as "Piece By Piece" and "I Cried For You" - although such moodswings can sometimes catch you off-guard if you're not in the right mood for them.
More straightforward blues fare comes in the form of "Blues In The Night" and "Blue Shoes", both of which find Melua at her moodiest, while a slightly more rousing cover version of "On The Road Again" feels like the sound of an artists having fun with one of her favourite tunes.
It lacks the edge of the original but should still delight fans, while bringing the album out of one of its brooding passages.
Another cover version drew a more mixed response from both these listeners, however. The artist has re-recorded The Cure's seminal "Just Like Heaven" for the soundtrack of the movie of the same name.
The hardcore Cure fan among us may find it risible and sickly sweet, while the Melua fan enjoy the acoustic guitar and female makeover given to Robert Smith's classic.
That said, given that we represent both a Melua fan and sceptic it's satisfying to be able to report that "Piece By Piece" does achieve what Melua set out to - that is to say, fans will get what they're seeking, while the album does indeed appeal in small doses to those who may not have been touched by the artist's work so far.
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 Pastiche by pastiche October 11, 2008
Oska
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I saw that she was compared to Norah Jones and hoped that she would be better than that over-rated singer. Unfortunately, she is worse. The songs lyrics are trite and pretentious. The backing music is so bland and dispirited it hurts. I had to turn the cd off after about track 8. It won't get another listen.
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