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A thrilling, revelatory debut, Tindersticks is a chamber pop masterpiece of romantic elegance and gutter debauchery. Within the framework of a remarkably consistent and mesmerizingly dank atmosphere, the group covers a stunning amount of ground -- "Her" is a crashing flamenco number, "The Walt Blues" is a tipsy organ instrumental, and "Paco de Renaldo's Dream" is an impenetrable cinematic monologue punctuated by subdued guitars, pianos, and strings. Stuart Staples' bacchanalian songs are obsessed with fluids, both bodily ("Blood," "Jism") and otherwise ("Nectar," "Whiskey and Water," "Raindrops"); no topic is too personal or too disturbing -- "Piano Song" is frightening in its callousness, while "City Sickness" is an unflinching examination of emotional and physical desperation. Fascinatingly constructed and strikingly ambitious, Tindersticks is insidiously labyrinthine: the music speaks softly but carries tremendous weight, and its hold grows more and more unbreakable with each listen.
Tracklist
Disc: 1
1 Nectar
2 Tyed
3 Sweet Man Part 1
4 Whiskey And Water
5 Blood
6 City Sickness
7 Patchwork
8 Marbles
9 The Walt Blues
10 Milky Teeth
11 Sweet Man - Part Two
12 Jism
13 Piano Song
14 Tie-Dye
15 Raindrops
16 Sweet Man - Part Three
17 Her
18 Tea Stain
19 Drunk Tank
20 Paco De Renaldo's Dream
21 The Not Knowing
Disc: 2
1 The Sorrow The Joy Brings
2 Fruitless
3 Whiskey And Water
4 For Those
5 Blood
6 City Sickness
7 Patchwork
8 Raindrops
9 Piano Song
10 A Sweet Sweet Man
11 Visiting
12 Drunk Tank