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His UK debut, The Singer, was rightly acclaimed on its release at the start of this year, and Teitur has since gone on to work with avant-garde composer Nico Muhly on a set of miniatures for the Holland Baroque Society. This new release is a retrospective compilation comprised mostly of songs as yet unreleased in the UK. Although his early work tends not to scale the heights of The Singer (in fact his fourth album), All My Mistakes is a fine presentation of Teitur's creative development.
The reminiscent storytelling of ‘Josephine’ comfortably sits in the ‘Edelweiss’ class of acoustic guitar-led waltzes, piano ballad ‘All My Mistakes’ owes a debt to Rufus Wainwright, and ‘Hitchhiker’ combines melodic passages with a tense verse similar in feel to some of Radiohead’s more recent work. The early front-room recording of ‘Boy, She Can Sing!’ contrasts with The Singer’s ‘Catherine the Waitress’, whose more adventurous instrumentation and polished recording sees a brass band joining the central marimba.
Of the other tracks chosen, soft pop songs ‘Sleeping With the Lights On’, ‘You’re the Ocean’ and ‘One & Only’ are pleasant, but more likely to bring to mind a patchy rom-com soundtrack than a greatest hits set. It's the variety on show elsewhere that goes a long way to explaining why so many other artists – Muhly, Wainwright and John Mayer, to name a few – hold Teitur in high esteem.
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