Tindersticks - Tindersticks (First Album) (+ Bonus CD) (Remastered)

Artist:

Tindersticks

See Also:

Willard Grant Conspiracy Joyner, Simon Sparklehorse Radiohead

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.

Track Listing:

DISC 1:

1. Nectar
2. Tyed
3. Sweet Sweet Man, A (Part 1)
4. Whiskey and Water
5. Blood
6. City Sickness
7. Patchwork
8. Marbles
9. Walt Blues
10. Milky Teeth [Original 7" Version]
11. Sweet Sweet Man, A (Part 2)
12. Jism
13. Piano Song
14. Tye-Die
15. Raindrops
16. Sweet Sweet Man Part 3, A
17. Her
18. Tea Stain
19. Drunk Tank
20. Paco De Renaldo`s Dream
21. Not Knowing, The
22. Whiskey & Water
23. For Those
24. Blood
25. City Sickness
26. Patchwork
27. Raindrops
28. Piano Song
29. Sweet Sweet Man
30. Visiting
31. Drunk Tank

DISC 2:

1. Sorrow the Joy Brings [Demo], The
2. Fruitless [Demo]
3. Whiskey and Water [Demo]
4. For Those [Demo]
5. Blood [Demo]
6. City Sickness [Demo]
7. Patchwork [Demo]
8. Raindrops [Demo]
9. Piano Song [Demo]
10. Sweet Sweet Man [Demo], A
11. Visiting [Demo]
12. Drunk Tank [Demo]

Album Information

Release Date:

06/14/2004

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Alternative

Label:

UME Imports

Catalog Number:

9816881

Original Release Year:

1994

# of Discs:

2

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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