Curtains

Tindersticks

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 24, 1997)
• Original Release Date: June 24, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: London / Umgd
• ASIN: B000003TSK
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #99,694 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
With the rich, bourbon voice of Stuart Staples, incredibly lush orchestral arrangements with soaring strings, and brooding and melancholic lyrics, Tindersticks always threaten to go over the top into the netherworld of obtuseness. But somehow they pull it off, creating, in the process, some of the most beautiful, complex and dense music set to wax. Curtains realizes the considerable promise of their first two acclaimed records with such wonderful cuts as "Rented Rooms," "Desperate," and the John Irving-esque "Bearsuit." Best of all, though, is the charmingly tongue-in-cheek bonus track, "Marriage Made in Heaven" which features a duet with Isabella Rossellini, who, though a much more accomplished actress than singer, provides a charming and accurate vocal counterpart to the swooning Mr. Staples: "He just groans and moans." --Tod Nelson

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You can't miss with this album. "10", January 5, 2000

By	Justin Ratcliff "egovirus" (S.Pasadena, Ca.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Okay, Isabella Rosselinni Sings a duet on this album. And thats not even it's pinacle! This disk is pure bliss no matter what track you started from. It's like putting Barry White, James Bond, The London Symphony, and a case of Stoli in a blender, and running it till it's smoother than Tom Waits eating pudding in a '79 jaguar.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest album of the nineties?, January 31, 2002

By	Hanna Eliasson (GBG, Sweden) - See all my reviews

This album would easily make it into my all-time top-ten record and is Tindersticks perhaps finest moment.
Some say that singer Stuart A Staples voice is one to eigher love or hate but I have troubles understanding how anyone can do other than love it. The songs, instrumentation, production, moods are all exellent but it is Staples voice that gives this record that special feeling.
Anyone into melancholic, moodfull, dreamy, bittersweet or passionate music should give tindersticks a try immediately. Among similar artist Nick Cave, Lee Hazlewood and 70's soul singers as Curtis Mayfield can be mentioned.
There are no weak songs on this album but absolute highlights are:"Bathtime", "Let's Pretend", "Rented Rooms", "Dancing" and "Are you trying to fall in love again".

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best just keep getting better, December 5, 1999

By	D. John Archer "John Archer" (UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Their first album was magnificent, but The Tindersticks have still managed to get better and better with every album since. Curtains is their third (not counting a collection of 'oddities' and a soundtrack), and is quite simply perfect. Every song is a masterpiece, perfectly hitting every emotion the band strives for. And for once these emotions are deep. Beautiful stuff. The only problem is that once you've heard this, the only other albums that seem half decent are other Tindersticks albums! PS I strongly urge you to also order the import of Tindersticks' new album, Simple Pleasure, which while containing one or two average tracks also features some of the best songs this tremendous band have ever done.