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Waiting for the Moon
(2003)
Tindersticks
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Label: Beggars Banquet Records
Duration: 45:37
Genre: Alternative

Waiting for the Moon finds the Tindersticks sticking firmly to the path that first won them praise, and inevitable comparisons to Nick Cave, Lee Hazlewood and Leonard Cohen, back in 1993 following the release of their eponymously titled debut. For the past decade the Tindersticks have thrived on building bold romantic soundscapes around the themes of despair and heartbreak and Waiting for the Moon doesn't disappoint, or surprise. Following the brooding majesty of their soundtrack to the bloodthirsty art-house flick Trouble Every Day, South London's reliably morose troubadours have returned with another dose of aching lyrical desolation and sweeping string-led melodies. Waiting for the Moon's first line sets the tone with frontman Stuart Staples enunciating in his trademark baritone boom, "My hands around your throat, if I kill you now they will never know". Breaking from the sublime string-led norm, "4.48 Psychosis" features lyrics from Sarah Kane's play of the same name while tumbling distorted guitars shamble along like those on Velvet Underground's "Heroin". Elsewhere French-Canadian singer Lhasa De Sala adds some Gallic flavour to "Sometimes It Hurts" while "Just a Dog" finds Staples howling at the night. With strings reliably swirling between themes of anxiety and elation, when it comes to dour balladry and candid Goth cabaret, the Tindersticks deliver in style and with disarming regularity. --Christopher Barrett


TrackDuration
Until the Morning Comes
Say Goodbye to the City
Sweet Memory4:29
4.48 Psychosis5:12
Waiting for the Moon
Trying to Find a Home
Sometimes it Hurts
My Oblivion7:00
Just a Dog
Running Wild4:14
Original Release: 2003-01-01
UPC: 607618023225