Tindersticks are an indie band from Nottingham who are fronted by singer Stuart A Staples. Their songs are pretty sparse and minimal with some fairly obvious comparisons to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. I know that JC is a big fan who has written about them more eloquently than I ever could.
I only have one album of theirs 1987's Curtains on the This Way Up label which was a charity acquisition.Let's Pretend is a track from that album.
I've also got a couple of interesting covers by them where they give their intepretations of classic songs by Townes Van Zandt and David Bowie
Tindersticks at never nothing less than satisfying and most of the time they exceed all expectations. Let’s Pretend is a song that seems to cross boundaries - singer/songwriter, Dramatic Pop, even an air of Trip Hop. Thief version of Kooks is kind of untouchable.
ReplyDeleteAlways feel I should like them more but struggle with his vocal delivery. Their/His Travelling Light with Carla Torgerson backing vocal is just stupendous though
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