release date: May 1, 2006
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,72]
producer: Martin Terefe
label: Arlo & Betty Recordings - nationality: Faroe Islands, Denmark
Track highlights: 1. "Don't Want You to Wake Up" (4 / 5) - 2. "Louis, Louis" (4 / 5) (live) - 3. "You Get Me" - 4. "I Run the Carousel" - 8. "Umbrellas in the Rain" - 9. "Boy, She Can Sing!" - 12. "All My Mistakes"
2nd studio album by Teitur follows three years after Poetry & Aeroplanes. The debut was promising and it received positive reviews but simply failed to produce the commercial success Universal Records had hoped for. For whatever reasons, Teitur didn't extend his contract with the American giant and instead he established his own label, Arlo & Betty Recordings to ensure future album releases. Stay Under the Stars is distributed by the Danish label Playground (and later reissued by Edsel Records).
Musically, it's close to his debut, perhaps more subtle with less chamber pop feel and even more acoustically driven. The songs are still there and it comes out as a pretty fine follow-up very much on par with a fine debut. Only I find it slightly bettering the debut by being a more coherent release.
Recommended.
