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When sizing up the appeal of Can Our Love..., the fifth album from the decade-old Tindersticks, the number of their records you may already own is largely irrelevant. The unswerving continuity of their work--chiefly remarkable for single-digit BPMs, a bone-dry sense of humor, and a luxuriant air of romantic desolation--suggests that each Tindersticks album is merely a small corner of a canvas the size of, well, life and love and loss. And on this album, once again we get what we came to swoon for: the dusty Hazlewood-esque intro prefacing Stuart Staples's forlorn, chocolaty mumbles ("dying slowly seems better than sh
When sizing up the appeal of Can Our Love..., the fifth album from the decade-old Tindersticks, the number of their records you may already own is largely irrelevant. The unswerving continuity of their work--chiefly remarkable for single-digit BPMs, a bone-dry sense of humor, and a luxuriant air of romantic desolation--suggests that each Tindersticks album is merely a small corner of a canvas the size of, well, life and love and loss. And on this album, once again we get what we came to swoon for: the dusty Hazlewood-esque intro prefacing Stuart Staples's forlorn, chocolaty mumbles ("dying slowly seems better than shooting myself") on "Don't Ever Get Tired," the interwoven vocal lines of "Chilitetime," and the intimate, Cohen-like voiceover of "No Man in the World." And we also get the suspicion, on hearing the Hammond-shivering, Bobby Womack-drifting-through-molasses seduction of "People Keep Comin' Around" and "Sweet Release," that if the Tindersticks have shifted position at all in the last 10 years, they have begun a slow, elegant sidle toward the spot marked "England's greatest soul band." --Jennifer Nine
Album Details
Their fifth studio album.
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Manufacturer: Beggars UK - Ada
Release date: 18 May 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0607618022228 UPC: 607618022228
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