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Tindersticks - Falling Down A Mountain
As I’ve got older I’ve managed to accept that the best things in life are generally known by few and that not everyone gets their deserves, with the atrocities of why doesn’t Lee Power play weekly and how has Noel Edmunds managed to carve a career in entertainment, now considered as youthful angst. Only Joking Noel, I still hate your guts.
But some things are meant to be special for you only, it happens, as I can honestly say I’ve had very few conversations with colleagues about most films I watch, music I listen to and documentaries about the particle accelerators I nerdily take an interest in.
And so I come on to one of the my very own little secrets, eight albums in and seventeen years of heartbreak and sadness still feel as good as they ever did with latest offering Falling Down A Mountain breaking very little new ground, but if something isn’t broken this far into a distinguished career, then you wouldn’t dare try to fix it.
Saying that its starts off all jazzy and moody on the self titled opener, which would be a natural progression in sound if it wasn’t for Stuart Staples voice, but things are back to business on Beautiful with the crooner (and he is) expressing some hope.
Harmony Round My Table is set at higher pace, handclaps and the joys that he had some extra luck a couple of weeks ago, its just great enjoying someone else’s misery, and its even got handclaps, which is always a bonus.
- Tindersticks
- Falling Down A Mountain (2010)
- Category: Album
- Label: 4AD
- Reviewed by: Keachy
- Published on: 25 Jan 2010
- Comments: 0
- Beat Surrender Rating:
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Add to favouritesPeanuts just doesn’t sound right, and at first before looking at the tracklist, I thought the duet was rambling on about the male genitals, this quickly redressed on She Rode Me which sounds like the intro to a Spagettti Western, on Hubbard Hills and Piano Music they’re just showing off on how many instruments they can actually play and make sound good together, if you like film scores, then you’ll love this.
So there’s nothing new on this album that will manage to win many new fans, but I wouldn’t have thought that was on the aganeda, but when you write music and deliver it as well as these fellas do, then the fan base you have will hopefully stay on side, unlike other bands I’ve liked over the years, which I managed to lose interest in, a couple of albums in.
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