I absolutely wore out Danish singer/songwriter Teitur Lassen’s debut album Poetry & Aeroplanes.  It may have been the most played album for me from my college days. In fact my wife and I had some of our best friends play one of the songs off the album for us in our wedding.  That is how much this album meant to me.  Well if you’re like me, you waited for his follow-up with great anticipation, only to be disappointed when Stay Under the Stars finally released in the US in late 2006.  With the troubles/breakup with Columbia records and  follow-up to Stay Under the Stars being written in his native tongue and a foreign release, I gave up on Teitur and kind of assumed that was the last I would hear of him.

While I gave up on Teitur Lassen, fortunately, he did not give up and has continued to write and record some great music over the past several years, following up his Faroese release, with another English album in late 2008, called The Singer, which I have yet to hear.  And his most recent album, Let the Dog Drive Home, released back in October of 2010 in Europe, has fully restored my love for this extremely talented songwriter.  The album is wistful and beautiful and everything I adored about his lovely debut.  And most importantly it has finally been released digitally in the US.  You can sample a few songs below and then you can buy the whole album here: Let the Dog Drive Home

Teitur – Let The Dog Drive Home

Teitur – You Never Leave LA by blaavinyl

and here is another mp3 i was able to scrounge up…it’s a little more upbeat than his earlier stuff, but enjoyable none the less.  here’s to hoping that blood flows from your ears.

teitur – catherine the waitress (removed 8/28)