Tindersticks - Tindersticks-1st Album

Tindersticks-1st Album

by Tindersticks

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Released
14/06/2004
Music Genre
Rock

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Description

Tindersticks: Stuart Staples (vocals, guitar); Neil Fraser (guitar); Dickon Hinchliffe (violin); David Boulter (keyboards); Mark Colwill (bass); Alistair Macaulay (drums). Remastered German version features a bonus CD of demos, plus extensive liner notes and new packaging. England's Tindersticks are often compared to the American group Lambchop, as both feature elegant, elaborate orchestrations, a low-key, often gloomy sensibility, and a mumbly vocalist. In contrast to their American peers' roots-identified sound, however, Tindersticks are more like 19th-Century romantics, with a distinctly European sense of decadence. Their debut album finds the Tindersticks sounding more like a conventional rock band than they ever would again. Though strings and horns provide some coloration, the orchestral aspect of the album is limited, and guitar-and-drum-based 4/4 rhythms abound. Still, the band's wonderfully obsessive morbidity and muted tones owe more to the John Cale side of the Velvet Underground than to anything remotely blues-derived. Singer Stuart Staples's often-indecipherable baritone murmur, which bears the influence of Nick Cave and Scott Walker, provides just the right amount of languid world-weariness for the Tindersticks' fragile vision.

Product Details

Artist
Tindersticks
Label / Studio
PID
Media Format
Audio CD
Original year of release
1994
Number of Discs
1
Media Content Format
Album
Recording Environment
Studio
Year of release
2004
CD WOW! Sales Rank
#3777
Catalog Number
9816881
Cast & Crew
Tindersticks (Music Performer)

Press Reviews

...the white-knuckled confessional dirges achieve a haunting beauty..." - Rating: B Entertainment Weekly (6/17/94, p.52)

Ranked #1 in Melody Maker's list of the `Albums Of The Year' for 1993 - "...sprawling, ambitious, faltering, brilliant, romantic, spontaneous, spooky, flawed and delightful....a quiet, candlelit inventory of love sorrows... Melody Maker (1/1/94, p.76)

...mystery, grace and a sense of place are here in abundance, and the band's collective imagination extends way beyond the race for a front cover in the music press.... Melody Maker (10/9/93, p.38)

3 Stars - Good Q (1/94, p.102)

4 stars out of 5 - "[A] strikingly maudlin six-piece capable of producing beautiful music... Q (p.141)

...A swirl of guitars, violin, trumpet, vibe and bassoon, Tindersticks' nearly 80-minute debut is mood music of...[an] anxious variety....Their best tunes...glimmer like dreams. Rolling Stone (12/29/94-1/12/95)

Listed as one of `Spin's Best Albums of '94' - "...plumbing the moody depths...that swings from spaghetti-western twangathons to sullen cabaret balladry....poignant, beautiful...menacing... Spin (12/94, p.81)

Tracklisting

Disc 1:

  1. Nectar (2:40)
  2. Tyed (4:10)
  3. Sweet Man, Pt. 1 (41)
  4. Whiskey and Water (5:51)
  5. Blood (4:51)
  6. City Sickness (4:00)
  7. Patchwork (4:40)
  8. Marbles (4:30)
  9. Walt Blues (1:08)
  10. Milky Teeth (2:52)
  11. Sweet Man, Pt. 2 (1:05)
  12. Jism (6:03)
  13. Piano Song (2:40)
  14. Tye-Die (3:59)
  15. Raindrops (6:14)
  16. Sweet Man, Pt. 3 (1:45)
  17. Her (3:29)
  18. Tea Stain (2:07)
  19. Drunk Tank (4:44)
  20. Paco de Renaldos Dream (4:22)
  21. Not Knowing (4:59)

Disc 2:

  1. Sorrow the Joy Brings [Demo Version] (4:04)
  2. Fruitless [Demo Version] (2:02)
  3. Whiskey & Water [Demo Version] (5:39)
  4. For Those... [Demo Version] (3:58)
  5. Blood [Demo Version] (4:49)
  6. City Sickness [Demo Version] (4:14)
  7. Patchwork [Demo Version] (4:23)
  8. Raindrops [Demo Version] (5:38)
  9. Piano Song [Demo Version] (4:46)
  10. Sweet Sweet Man [Demo Version] (4:51)
  11. Visiting [Demo Version] (5:25)
  12. Drunk Tank [Demo Version] (5:41)

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