Articles tagged with: Tindersticks
CD Review: ‘The Opiates’, Thomas Feiner; Anywhen
Talk about your long gestation periods - The Opiates, the third and final album from Swedish collective Anywhen - was originally recorded in 2001, and subject to an extremely limited release in February of that year. So why are we mentioning it now? Well, The Opiates has aged sufficently enough to reach 'lost classic' status, and - following a rediscovery by ex-Japan mastermind David Sylvian - is all set for an updated and expanded re-release, courtesy of some reworking by vocalist Thomas Feiner. Please. Stay where you are. We know the connotations that the term 'lost classic' has - you probably can't help thinking of some scratchy Bob Dylan bootleg heralded as 'the ultimate live experience' or thirty-seven minutes of Syd Barrett farting that some wag has labelled 'a transcendent psychedelic journey lost for several decades'.
Talk about your long gestation periods - The Opiates, the third and final album from Swedish collective Anywhen - was originally recorded in 2001, and subject to an extremely limited release in February of that year. So why are we mentioning it now? Well, The Opiates has aged sufficently enough to reach 'lost classic' status, and - following a rediscovery by ex-Japan mastermind David Sylvian - is all set for an updated and expanded re-release, courtesy of some reworking by vocalist Thomas Feiner. Please. Stay where you are. We know the connotations that the term 'lost classic' has - you probably can't help thinking of some scratchy Bob Dylan bootleg heralded as 'the ultimate live experience' or thirty-seven minutes of Syd Barrett farting that some wag has labelled 'a transcendent psychedelic journey lost for several decades'.
Album Review: Tindersticks, ‘The Hungry Saw’
If you know Tindersticks, you'll be more than familiar with the world they inhabit. It's a sonic landscape of occasional desolation, soothing melancholy and introspective melody, all hazed out through a 3am red-wine-and-cigarettes blurry filter. In short: if you're looking for an album to soundtrack the million-plus hours of GTA IV rampages you're going to be enjoying from Tuesday, you need to search elsewhere. If, however, you're looking for a haunting, swelling, oddly fitting mixture of the stripped-back and the orchestral, then The Hungry Saw - Tindersticks' first album since 2003's Waiting For The Moon, and the seventh in their catalogue so far - may just float your boat nicely.
If you know Tindersticks, you'll be more than familiar with the world they inhabit. It's a sonic landscape of occasional desolation, soothing melancholy and introspective melody, all hazed out through a 3am red-wine-and-cigarettes blurry filter. In short: if you're looking for an album to soundtrack the million-plus hours of GTA IV rampages you're going to be enjoying from Tuesday, you need to search elsewhere. If, however, you're looking for a haunting, swelling, oddly fitting mixture of the stripped-back and the orchestral, then The Hungry Saw - Tindersticks' first album since 2003's Waiting For The Moon, and the seventh in their catalogue so far - may just float your boat nicely.
