KT Tunstall

this is the kind of music I was expecting from love monkey. different-sounding but not too foreign; emotional and instantly catchy. a song that clearchannel would hate to have to play, because they wouldn’t be able to pin it down to their cookie-cutter genres.

the artist is KT Tunstall, a scottish songwriter with a yet-to-be-released (in the US, anyway) debut album. she played live on the today show this morning, if you happened to catch it.

the 30-second clip on itunes doesn’t do the song justice, especially since the song sounds infinitely better live. check out a live performance [windows media required] where KT plays all the instruments in “black horse & the cherry tree”, thanks to some tricky use of pedals.