SEEING the long queue happily snake away from Teitur Lassen following his 2007 appearance in Yorkshire gave notice that this singer songwriter had great potential.
Quite what those concertgoers made of those albums recorded in the language of his native Faroe Islands is uncertain. What is clearer is that with The Singer, his third English language release, Teitur is intent on making a statement. Teitur’s work has always sounded pleasantly old fashioned, but this has a different frame of reference altogether – to Kurt Weill and the theatre.
The Singer dispenses with most of the melodic strengths of Stay Under The Stars, and pitches Teitur’s high, attractive voice against sparse, unusual instrumentation. Catherine The Waitress is one of very few accessible tracks, but for the most part this is either wildly ambitious or hugely arrogant and misplaced. Time will tell.
In either event, this is not the sort of record for a singer to endear himself to a large audience.
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