K.T. Tunstall - Black Horse and the Cherry Tree (2006)

**1/2 (of four)



This video has more uses than any in recent memory of the "She'll only come out at night" camera shot from the beginning of the Hall and Oates video for "Maneater." You know that shot I'm talking about - where the camera is close-up on a right-profile shot of Hall, then he spins his head dramatically toward the camera to convey immediacy and alarm. Well, K.T. Tunstall does this head-swivel at least eight times in "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree," and it gets old, well, just before the first time she does it. Otherwise, director Sophie Muller supplies us with plenty of dark-room shots of Tunstall playing an enormous acoustic guitar and bass drum that threatens to swallow her whole. And she beats on a snare drum and a tamborine. She's a one-man band, just like that Sgt. Pepperoni guy who used to wander around Six Flags when I was a kid. I have immense respect for you, K.T. Tunstall.