Tindersticks: Travelling Lighter Than Ever

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Out To Lunch,

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Monday 15th February

Ever since their two self-titled albums blew away the British music scene in the mid 90s, Tindersticks have been turning out consistently excellent albums, with their strings and strange baritones hopping effortlessly between playful and profoundly sad.

The start of this decade saw the band first take a shift in more soulful directions, and then, after 2003’s bleak Waiting for the Moon, call it a day. But in 2008, after a couple of solo albums from frontman Stuart Staples, the band suddenly re-emerged, stripped back, full of life and passion with a remarkable album The Hungry Saw.

They’ve kept that up with this month’s second release from this new incarnation of the band, Falling Down a Mountain (4AD/Remote Control). It’s an album that could only have been made by a band that have learned to love making music again, and RTR’s Patrick Pittman was pretty thrilled to catch up with Stuart Staples from a London hotel room to talk about just how they got here.