release date: Oct. 1993
format: cd
[album rate: 4,5 / 5] [4,34]
producer: Ian Caple & Tindersticks
label: This Way Up - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 1. "Nectar" - 2. "Tyed" - 6. "City Sickness" (5 / 5) - 8. "Marbles" - 10. "Milky Teeth" - 14. "Tie-dye" - 17 "Her"
Studio debut album by Tindersticks released on This Way Up and produced by Ian Caple and Tindersticks. The band took the whole music industry by storm with this fantastic debut. It really sounds like nothing else, and their use of classical chamber instruments within a pop / rock setting was soon copied by many others. The music is very varied with references to baroque pop, post-punk, art pop, jazz, r&b, and soul. It contains the beautiful track "City Sickness", a song I played over and over again that year, but it's also a song that wasn't to be part of their later musical universe, which I regretted at first, but they proved to re-invent themselves and find their most unique sound and style. The original album contains 21 tracks and has a total playing time at around 77 min., another thing that makes it rather unusual, and it was released as a double lp on vinyl. Both band and album was met with critical acclaim, especially in Europe, but the album released on a small independent label wasn't a best selling album, much like none of the band's later releases would prove to be.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, NME 4 / 5 stars ]
1993 Favourite releases: 1. Tindersticks Tindersticks - 2. Björk Debut - 3. The Breeders Last Splash
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