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Key Points KT Tunstall has released a deluxe reissue of her debut album with new songs. The long-missing title track, "Eye of the Telescope," was completed and included after 20 years. Tunstall supports the release with a tour alongside O.A.R. and Gavin DeGraw. Back in 2005, Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall burst onto the scene with the hit singles “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” and “Suddenly I See” from her debut album, Eye of the Telescope. The album included 10 other songs, but strangely there was no song titled “Eye of the Telescope” featured on the set, which went on to sell more than a million copies in the U.S. and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade’s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox🎬 Now, two decades later, Tunstall has revived the missing title track on a deluxe version of the album, released Oct. 31, featuring three new songs and live tracks, which are also available separately as The Stargazer EP. Tunstall celebrated the release of the deluxe reissue with a post on her official Instagram account, which received approval from fellow singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock. “Kate! Eeek! Happy Halloweeen! 😍🎃,” he posted. Oops! We’re unable to load this content right now. View directly on Instagram “The title for my first album was inspired by the times when my physicist Dad, who had a spare set of keys for the Observatory at Andrew’s university, would randomly get us up in the middle of the night and bundle us into the car in our pajamas to go and look through the huge telescope to see the night sky; the Moon, Saturn, Halley’s comet, all of which completely blew my mind as a kid. When I decided to call the album ‘Eye to the Telescope’, I thought I’d have a go at writing a title track, but what I began writing was so delicate, and I felt that a title track of a first album surely had to be a banger, so I abandoned it,” Tunstall said in a statement. “My label BMG encouraged me to finish the song for this special re-release, and it’s been such a thrill to complete something over 20 years in the making. Having the album’s original string arranger David Davidson add his gorgeous orchestration on it, as well as Shabaka’s magical wooden flute performance, feels like a cosmic full-circle moment.” The reissued album and new EP also include the new songs and current single “Cancerian” and “Anything at All.” “After deciding on my first album title, it got me thinking about horoscopes and how we have always looked to the stars for guidance,” Tunstall explained. “‘Cancerian’ is written from that middle ground of awe and skepticism, and pokes some gentle fun at anyone being sure of how the future will turn out. It was a lot of fun to record an old song for the very first time, and I loved getting the chance to work with the truly excellent Producer and Mixer Robert Adam Stevenson on this track.”
