Teitur's The Singer

Teitur's new album "The Singer" seems to cause time to stop, like after experiencing something tragic or those rare times when every little detail seems right. At those times you seem to exist outside of time and only in peaceful observation. I feel like this throughout the entire album. Needless to say "The Singer" is beautiful. When I first heard Teitur I was playing a bar in Columbus, GA called The Loft where Teitur had played the night before. The bartender played me some live cuts of "Amanda's Dream" and "Josephine" and I was hooked. Teitur just had this way of removing any barriers that exist between the artist and the listener, and with "The Singer" Teitur really takes this to a new level.The production on "The Singer" is like "The Island of Misfit Toys." Its like if you strip the song of everything except the voice, then you let all the production ideas that were overlooked, forgotten, and less favored creep back in, and the effect is this spacious and beautiful setting. One of the tracks is a letter that Teitur received from a friend, and he sets it to music on the album. It requires a very asymmetric music structure with phrases of various length. This style of writing seems to resurface throughout the album, especially on the title track. The effect for me is that I feel almost as if I'm being talked to, personally as opposed to hearing words and phases that are filtered and reshaped to fit a mass-produced, cookie cut common time song.I like when an artist progresses to get at an expose their utter self, and that's exactly what Teitur is doing.Nicholas Alanwww.nicholasalan.com