The Something Rain
On Tindersticks' ninth album, their best with their retooled lineup, the pop-noir balladeers strike the sweet spot between experimental sprawl and sultry soul.
Now in their third decade as a band and second phase of their career after a five-year hiatus, Nottingham’s Tindersticks smartly open The Something Rain with a maneuver aimed against any assumed legacy-act complacence. At just over nine minutes and barely less than 1,200 words, “Chocolate” is the longest song in the…
The Something Rain, Tindersticks' ninth album, stubbornly holds fast to the group's branded, nocturnal avant-pop, one that holds within it everything from elegantly textured electronics and touches of jazz to cabaret, chanson, and melancholy indie pop.
<p><strong>Phil Mongredien </strong>is hooked by the atmospheric opener on this latest outing from Stuart Staples and co</p>
Tindersticks' ninth album finds their maudlin, jazz-streaked music as vividly wearied as ever, writes <strong>Charlotte Richardson Andrews</strong>
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