It’s been two years since Faroese singer/songwriter Teitur excited with his lauded album ‘The Singer’, the time in between spend with heavy touring and songwriting. Early last year he entered the studio to record this fifth album titled ‘Let The Dog Drive Home’, again working with Faroese friend, composer and arranger Tróndur Bogason, which was released in Scandinavia in October with the rest of the world to follow early this year.

In many ways he continues the style from ‘The Singer’ on this album, still rich on elegant and sometimes surprising details in instrumentation and arrangements, yet the overall expression is more straightforward. And it works pretty great, not least in Burt Bacharach moment ‘All I Remember From Last Night’, the beautiful ‘Very Careless People’ (in the player), and the stripped down, groovy ‘God I Have So Many Things To Tell You’ sporting a light touch of Leonard Cohen in the chorus.

Vocally Teitur has also turned it down a notch compared to the previous album, again in favor of a more straightforward feel, but without compromising or loosing his trademark innocence in all its heartfelt melancholy, and while ‘Let The Dog Drive Home’ might not raise as many eyebrows as ‘The Singer’, it is overall a rather wonderful pop record.

Genre: Pop/Rock
Who: Teitur
Title: Let The Dog Drive Home
Label: Arlo & Betty Recordings/Playground
Year: 2010
Country: Faroe Islands
Language: English
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Recommended tracks:
God I Have So Many Things To Tell You – Waverly Place – Betty Hedges – Very Careless People – All I Remember From Last Night