- Audio CD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Naive
- ASIN: B00005M1P0
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Never ones to shy away from their own unwavering path, the second Tindersticks' album this year, sees them score the soundtrack to Claire Denis' controversial art-house film Trouble Every Day, in which Beatrice Dalle seduces and cannibalises her way through four men. Tindersticks and Denis have viewed each other with a long-held mutual admiration, and this is their second collaboration following their soundtrack to the 1996 film Nenette Et Boni. Like that album, the music here veers away on the whole, from their ennui-laced, melancholic vignettes. Instead, the songs are sparse, stripped-down affairs suggesting a haunting and dislocated mood made all the more eerily poignant when imagining the film's horrific scenes of carnage. Strings are half-plucked and remain motionless in the air for a few seconds, horns tremulously sound, creating somnambulist and elegiac fragments of songs. While fans may miss singer Stuart Staples' trademark Walker-esque croon or the lush, rich arrangements of classic Tindersticks' songs, Trouble Every Day is nonetheless an affecting album, which demonstrates a brooding, understated intensity. The album's title and only vocal track, is a riposte to the album's nakedness, with the sweep of the strings and Staples' voice producing a melancholic yet life-affirming warmth. --Suzannah Brown
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Format:Audio CD
I haven't seen the movie, but this is an excellent collection of music, despite the fact it's a soundtrack. Put it on and pretend you're a detective in a movie.
5 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Tindersticks have, without a doubt, given us some of the best albums of the last ten years, especially 'Simple Pleasure' and their second album. Imagine, then, the pleasure of getting two albums in one year - first 'Can Our Love...', then a soundtrack album. Beware........ 'Can Our Love' is a fantastic piece of work; some beautiful songs and a worthy fifth album. 'Trouble Every Day' has one song, called, unsurprisingly, 'Trouble Every Day'. The song itself is really good, classic 'Sticks fare, but it's the only song on the album. The rest is incidental music based on, unsurprisingly, the structure of the title track. One song for the priceis not that great. It gets two stars instead of one cos a few tracks are pleasing enough, the title track is a gem and, well, it's Tindersticks.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Variations of somber and beautiful moods.
18 Nov 2001
Format:Audio CD
Many Tindersticks aficionados were somewhat puzzled by the bands recent immersion in soul and R&B style crooning. Now, I happen to think that "Can our Love" (their preceding release) is an excellent album, catchy and passionate and full of great little details. But I also wondered if the band had given up creating the grander and more solemn moods that lived in their second album.
Trouble Every Day drips with the kind of somber and profound mood that the band seemed to have discarded in their recent releases. For those who aren't familiar with the Tindersticks, imagine a synthesis of Angelo Badalamenti with John Cage, and early Leonard Cohen - performed inside a chapel. No comparisons are fair, since the sound is truly greater than the some of it's possible influences.
"Trouble Every Day" is more of a composed work than something that might have spontaneously come from a rock band. Many of the basslines are played (beautifully) by a double bass, and a full orchestra is used to great effect. Eastern sounding hand-percussion, acoustic guitar, and brass section all contribute to a mood that somehow feels both rich and austere.
Of course all the usual members of Tindersticks contribute with the creativity and musicality that they have brought to all their recordings.
There is only one actual song here, though it appears in three versions. And the tracks are mostly variations on a few musical themes. So it doesn't really work as a pop album, but instead as several slices or movements within a larger body of work. It plays much better when listened to in one sitting, rather than as a track or two before moving on.
I think this an excellent CD. For Tindersticks fans, I think it is a must buy. It is much more complex and interesting than their "Nanette and Boni" soundtrack. For those unfamiliar with Tindersticks, this album would be a good choice for someone who is looking for a mostly instrumental album with a somber, and slightly minimalist musical feel.
Note: This is also one of the best-recorded CD's I own. This may make you want to upgrade your stereo.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A great album....
25 Feb 2005
Format:Audio CD
It takes a real smart person and an incredible stroke of luck to blend music with a movie and have it really truly work. I am a big Tindersticks fan and I was a huge fan of Trouble Every Day which was one of the most gruesome films i have ever seen, and horror and gore is my thing... But Tindersticks creates a truly haunting soundtrack, Of course the album stands out alone as well but see the film first if you can and see what tindersticks lends to it...
happy accident
16 April 2011
Format:Audio CD
i really love the arrangements. somber, bleak, yet beautiful. i can't say much for the movie but the soundtrack is wonderful.
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