Artist:KT Tunstall
Release:Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon
Released: 2013
Label: Virgin
Catalog#: CDV3109
Format: FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue
Country: UK
Style:alt. pop rock

1	 Invisible Empire	3:52	
2	 Made Of Glass	4:11	
3	 How You Kill Me	4:11	
4	 Carried	3:41	
5	 Old Man Song	3:12	
6	 Yellow Flower	3:12	
7	 Crescent Moon	3:52	
8	 Waiting On The Heart	4:29	
9	 Feel It All	4:11	
10	 Chimes	3:37	
11	 Honeydew	3:22	
12	 No Better Shoulder	5:27	
Bonus Track
13	 Feel It All // Band Jam	3:49	

There was an experiment with a near-electro album in 2010, and that was enough to send KT Tunstall in the opposite direction for this record. The sparse, countrified tone is new for her – it was recorded in Arizona, with Howe Gelb producing – but fits the reflective mood of the songs, half of them written after her father suddenly died and her marriage ended. The hallmark is delicacy: every song feels fragile. The track Made of Glass even has fragility as its subject – a friend who died of cancer left her a vase, which inspired this gently strummed meditation about breakable gifts. How You Kill Me is also full of pathos; "Just as I sing like a bird, you shoot me down for your fun," she accuses, over brushed cymbals and hypnotic bass. Waiting on the Heart is the most alt-country moment – Gelb has made free with the pedal steel and reverb, and it's a stunner. In fact, there's little here that doesn't make you wonder where Tunstall has been hiding all this beauty until now.