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Katie Melua

Polished chamber pop and vocal jazz with a cinematic heart. Melua's breathy delivery turns every track into an intimate, rain-flecked confession.

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It's like a black-and-white movie turned into a warm, acoustic pop record.

A sophisticated, cinematic nostalgia wrapped in gentle acoustic warmth.

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Wistful saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 14 Tracks · 52m
01
Mary Pickford
3:12
02
It’s All in My Head
4:04
03
If the Lights Go Out
3:15
04
What I Miss About You
3:48
05
Spellbound
3:01
06
What It Says on the Tin
3:45
07
Scary Films
4:03
08
Perfect Circle
4:01
09
Ghost Town
3:32
10
If You Were a Sailboat
4:02
11
Dirty Dice
3:39
12
In My Secret Life
4:23
13
When You Taught Me How to Dance
3:24
14
The Closest Thing to Crazy (acoustic)
4:13
Moments Worth Waiting For
The delicate pizzicato strings on Mary Pickford that mimic the flickering movement of an old silent film
The haunting, bluesy guitar lick that opens If You Were a Sailboat before the lush orchestration swells
The transition into the stripped-back acoustic version of The Closest Thing to Crazy that closes the record
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