release date: Jun. 9, 2017
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,02]
producer: Stuart A. Staples
label: Lucky Dog / City Slang - nationality: England, UK
Soundtrack album by Tindersticks to a film directed and written by Stuart A. Staples about British film pioneer and photographer Frank Percy Smith. The album is credited 'Tindersticks with Thomas Belhom and Christine Ott', and both French musicians, Belhom and Ott, have previously appeared on Tindersticks releases. Drummer Belhom appeared on both of Staples' first solo releases, the band's 2008 album The Hungry Saw, as well as on several soundtrack albums by Tindersticks. Composer and multi-instrumentalist Christine Ott first played with Tindersticks on the soundtrack to Claire Denis' 35 Rhums (2008) and then also on the soundtrack to Denis's film Les salauds (2013), and she appears here with her 'specialty instrument', Ondes martenot, as pianist, on Fender Rhodes, and as vocalist.
The album consists of 15 mainly instrumentals of varying length from 1:34 to 8:25 minutes and they are all experimental ambient with an electronic touch.
As an album, it relates to other Tinderstick soundtracks in that it may also be seen as neo-classical works, largely created as a supplement to a visual expression.
