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Breaking from the sublime string-led norm, "4.48 Psychosis" features lyrics from Sarah Kane's play of the same name while tumbling distorted guitars shamble along like those on Velvet Underground's "Heroin". Elsewhere French-Canadian singer Lhasa De Sala adds some Gallic flavour to "Sometimes It Hurts" while "Just a Dog" finds Staples howling at the night. With strings reliably swirling between themes of anxiety and elation, when it comes to dour balladry and candid Goth cabaret, the Tindersticks deliver in style and with disarming regularity. --Christopher Barrett
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It's been ten years since the Nottingham-based group released their eponymous debut to universal acclaim. In many ways their endurance has set them free from the vagaries of the pop world. Since leaving behind major label pressures, they seem settled, confident and mature without any of the pejorative associations of the word.
If 2001's Can Our Love... explored the anguished, string-laden urban soul of Curtis Mayfield or Donny Hathaway, Waiting For The Moon is less easy to pin-down.
There are still gorgeous, melancholy grooves like "Until The Morning Comes" or "Sometimes It Hurts". But tracks like "Say Goodbye To The City" extend the atmosphere of brooding paranoia that pervaded the last album to the verge of psychosis via noisier, more angular arrangements.
In fact, though it's Stuart Staples idiosyncratic nasal vocals that take centre stage, the Tindersticks sound hangs on the talents of their arranger Dickon Hinchcliffe. There are few musicians working in pop music with such a panoramic vision or nuanced approach.
Hinchcliffe's instrumentation provides a suitably theatrical backdrop for Staples. It's one of their most dramatic albums, most obviously in the monologue "4.48 Psychosis", and because of that probably one of their most difficult.
That Staples has a penchant for Jacques Brel or Scott Walker has never been more obvious, particularly on the jaunty "Just A Dog". However he carries it off with real pathos and at times almost heroic understatement. Witness "My Oblivion"; even the titlesuggests melodrama and yet its expansive orchestration and metaphysical lyrics seep slowly into the consciousness over repeated listens.
There is no obvious single here to hook new listeners, but this seems somewhat irrelevant. This is just what the doctor ordered: another great Tindersticks album. --Derryck Strachan
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This is definitely a good album, even though it does not have tracks that really stand out, except maybe "My Oblivion", which is currently my favourite track.
What struck me was the big influence of Dickon Hinchliffe on this album. His singing is much more prominent. He has written or co-written most of the lyrics.
Having listened to the album a number of times, I should say that it sounds more mellow, more romantic than most previous albums. Most tracks do not have that "dark edge" that would characterise Tindersticks' music in the past.
I dare say, it is an album to listen to while your watching the summer sun set in the West, with a glass of wine, and with an absent loved one on your mind who is due to return in the next couple of days. Melancholy and Romance.
Stuart Staples' voice is indeed unique and unmistakeable, but it gives way on some tracks here to Dickon Hinchcliffe - a voice hidden for too long on previous albums.
Favourite tracks here : er, all of them - seriously! Not a bad one amongst them!
With this album they haven't changed in any great way, just refined the souful vision that started with 'Simple Pleasure' and taken it further. 'Waiting for the Moon' has a mainly ballad-led feel, with an increased input from Dickon Hinchcliffe (their violinist and string arranger), who turns-in some impressive songwriting and singing contributions.
It's slow, at times dark, but emotionally direct and true. Tracks like 'Until The Morning Comes' and 'Sweet Memory' have a purity that strikes home without melodrama. The fact that this album is just as good as their last two, which were superb, means this is a band on a roll and one worth paying attention to over the years to come.
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