THIS follow up to KT Tunstall's debut album, Eye to the Telescope, could have gone one of two ways, sinking into the jazzy ballads of Norah Jones and Dido, or shaking things up a little with the edgier guitar of hits like Suddenly I See.

It's easy to see a shift toward the latter on Drastic Fantastic and you can't move for twangy rock guitar. On the other hand, at first it isn't so easy to tell whether she's managed to pull off the move.

The overall production values give a bland overly commercial quality to the album, making for a disappointing first play, but these songs will grow on you.

Possibly, and unfortunately, they also have the catchy quality necessary to make for endless radio play, which might make you regret purchasing the album after a few months.

Nevertheless the songs are good and the writing is better, and if professional production is the most negative quality that can be attributed to an album, that can be no bad thing.

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