Teitur – The Singer

“I always had the voice, and now I am a singer” this is how Teitur opens his album “The Singer”, with a song of the same name. Teitur’s influences are varied. Listening to this album reminds us of the 50’s black and white cinema; after listening to ‘The Girl I Don’t Know’ and ‘We Still Drink The Same Water’, we feel like coming out of a theatre after watching an Audrey Hepburn’s movie. ‘Catherine The Waitress’ brings the dancing feet out, it’s a “cleaner Richard Swift” telling Catherine how good she is to him. Country and music from the Balkans appear discretely, in a really personal way. Teitur drinks from all this fountains but never falls in the error of repeating the same formulas, he re-invents himself in each song, sometimes even inside the same song. The most beautiful song in the album, ‘You Should Have Seen Us’, serves as a closure for it, it’s dark, although enlightened from time to time. On the first song, Teitur says “I never meant to be a singer but I’m slowly getting used to the idea”, we hope he does get used, and for a long time.
Teitur was one of the most interesting revelations I’ve heard in 2008, not completely new, not completely old, a re-invention of the singer as a character to be praised and respected.

Music video for ‘Louis Louis’, that you can find on his album “Stay Under The Stars” from 2006