New Tindersticks Album Coming Soon
Hooray! There’s a new Tindersticks album coming soon. The Hungry Saw will be out in April on Beggars Banquet.
Tindersticks are the best band in the world - shut up you cloth-eared fool, they are - so this makes me very happy indeed. Even though the group appears to have shed no less than half its members in the five years since their last proper offering, Waiting for the Moon, the new preview track is authentic Tindersticks from start to finish. Curiously entitled The Flicker of a Little Girl*, it sounds grand to me, which bodes well for the album. Amongst my friends I know of only two other fans, and far more people who actively dislike them, so I don’t really expect you to share my opinion, but you should give the new song a couple of listens anyway. They’re one of those bands who, precisely because of the idiosyncrasies that put people off initially, inspire quietly lunatic devotion in their fans. It is, I think, well worth making the effort to acquire a taste for their music.
* Sorry if that link doesn’t work properly, I’m unsure of all this newfangled MySpacery.