{"id":40964,"date":"2018-10-04T12:13:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T11:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=40964"},"modified":"2018-10-04T12:14:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T11:14:22","slug":"katie-meluas-ultimate-collection-is-everything-you-expect-and-then-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/10\/katie-meluas-ultimate-collection-is-everything-you-expect-and-then-some\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Melua’s ‘Ultimate Collection’ Is Everything You Expect And Then Some"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Ultimate Collection’ commemorates the 15 years since Katie Melua released her debut album, ‘Call Off The Search’, which topped the charts and set her on course to become the best selling female artist in the UK and Europe of 2006. The album contains 30 songs from her 7 studio albums, as well as her cover of ‘Fields Of Gold’, which she recorded in 2017 as the Children In Need single, and two brand new recordings – ‘Diamonds Are Forever’, synonymous with Shirley Bassey and James Bond; and the Simon and Garfunkel classic, ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The album is everything you’d expect from Melua. Even if you don’t think you know any of her songs beyond ‘Nine Million Bicycles’, the one for which she’s most famous, and conveniently opens the album – you do. There’s a lot more covers than we’d expected, but it’s overall a great mix of tracks, ranging from the autobiographical, ‘Plane Song’, and ‘Belfast (Penguins And Cats)’, to the classics – the afore-mentioned covers, as well as others such as ‘In My Secret Life’, originally by Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson, and ‘What A Wonderful World’, which sees Melua joined by Eva Cassidy, the contrast between their voices both striking and gorgeous.<\/p>\n