Evoking images of sensitive '70s MOR, the pensive male singer/songwriter came into vogue as the millennium turned.
Teitur (full name
Teitur Lassen) came to prominence on the heels of this movement. Though he is often compared to
John Mayer,
Poetry & Aeroplanes is more otherworldly than most
Mayer fare, possibly as a result of
Teitur's cosmopolitan background (he left the Faroe Islands as a teenager and proceeded to spend little time on any one continent). Dramatic orchestrations fill out most of the material, leaving the few ballads that are relegated to guitar-and-vocals simplicity sounding like
Dave Matthews without the hippie inclinations. ~ Brian O'Neill