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Media: Audio CD
Format: CD+DVD
Product Group: Music

Disc: 1
1 Shy Boy
2 Nine Million Bicycles
3 Piece By Piece
4 Halfway Up The Hindu Kush
5 Blues In The Night
6 Spider's Web
7 Blues Shoes
8 On The Road Again
9 Thank You Stars
10 Just Like Heaven
11 I Cried For You
12 I Do Believe In Love
13 It's Only Pain
14 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
15 Sometimes When I'm Dreaming

Disc: 2
1 Piece By Piece
2 Nine Million Bicycles
3 I Cried For You
4 Spider's Web
5 Fancy
6 I Cried For You (2)
7 Halfway Up The Hindu Kush
8 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
9 Just Like Heaven
10 Piece By Piece
11 On The Road Again
12 Crawling Up A Hill
13 Spaceman
14 Closest Thing To Crazy
15 Mockingbird Song
16 Faraway Voice
17 Nine Million Bicycles
18 I Cried For You (3)
19 Spiders Web

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: Average Rating: 4.0 out of 5

Not the same impact!: Rating: 3 out of 5

Lacks the magic of the songs of her earlier CDs but that's probably just my bias. This is not denying her ability as a superb singer and especially of jazz/blue music. Great rendition of 'Blues In The Night' and I liked too her singing of 'I Cried For You'. Regretfully, the selection on this CD does not compare favourably with that of 'Call Of The Search'.

Beautiful: Rating: 5 out of 5

What a wonderful, wonderful talent. This beautiful girl has a fantastic, dreamy voice and this album really does her justice. The CD/DVD "special edition" gives some extra features, but it is the music, and the voice, that enthralls.

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