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Amazon.com's Best of 1999
The Tindersticks' formula is unique and deceptively simple: combine Stuart Staples's heart-on-sleeve, Leonard Cohen-on-Quaaludes vocals, a rainy-day orchestral lushness, a small dose of R&B swagger, and a whole heap of sexual angst. Simple Pleasures doesn't depart from that potent concoction at all, adding to the overall greatness of their oeuvre. Think of their albums as lovely seashells: they are all recognizably the same thing, but the particular shell you hold in your hand is singular and beautiful. --Tod Nelson
Of all the Tindersticks' albums (and be assured that each is singularly and equall
Amazon.com's Best of 1999
The Tindersticks' formula is unique and deceptively simple: combine Stuart Staples's heart-on-sleeve, Leonard Cohen-on-Quaaludes vocals, a rainy-day orchestral lushness, a small dose of R&B swagger, and a whole heap of sexual angst. Simple Pleasures doesn't depart from that potent concoction at all, adding to the overall greatness of their oeuvre. Think of their albums as lovely seashells: they are all recognizably the same thing, but the particular shell you hold in your hand is singular and beautiful. --Tod Nelson
Of all the Tindersticks' albums (and be assured that each is singularly and equally wonderful), Simple Pleasures is their most soulful and direct. On earlier outings, their songs were so packed with layered instrumentation, dark orchestration, and emotional density--on top of which Stuart Staples's brooding baritone (perhaps the most unique and lovely voice in all of music) rumbled--that you could barely breathe. But on Simple Pleasures the songs feel more open and airy, like someone has opened a door to let in the spring breeze. That's not to say that this enigmatic sextet has changed the makeup of their musical concoction much; Pleasures still features the beautiful scrim of piano, accordion, woodwinds, violin, cello, brushed drum, and the slip and slide of Staples's voice. And Staples knows that after spring comes fall, and it's the fallen that he's most interested in; his tone poems emote with both the betrayer and the betrayed. When Staples sings "You take this heart of mine," he means it in the worst possible way. And on the song "I Know That Loving," the love he knows is not a pleasant one. The beauty of the Tindersticks is that they acknowledge pain with lovely grace. --Tod Nelson
Album Description
1999 & fifth album from this acclaimed English indie rock with a strong cult following and a sound that resembles Nick Cave & Bryan Ferry or Lloyd Cole joining forces. Nine tracks, including the single 'Can We Start Again?'.
Album Details
1999 Release. Their Ninth Album to Date. 45 Minutes of Warm Soulful Music. Eight Original Tracks plus a Cover of Odyssey's 'if You're Looking for a Way Out'.
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Manufacturer: Universal/Polygram
Release date: 19 August 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0731454637220 UPC: 731454637220
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