Waiting for the Moon

Tindersticks | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 17, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Beggars UK - Ada
• ASIN: B00009028F
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #230,841 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Waiting for the Moon finds Tindersticks staying resolutely on the path that first won them praise in the early '90s, as well as a slew of comparisons to Nick Cave, Lee Hazlewood, and Leonard Cohen. Since their emergence, Tindersticks have thrived by building bold romantic soundscapes around the themes of despair and heartbreak. 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 melodies. Waiting for the Moon's first line sets the tone as frontman Stuart Staples enunciates, "My hands around your throat, if I kill you now they will never know".Breaking from the sublime string-heavy norm, "4.48 Psychosis" (which features lyrics from Sarah Kane's play of the same name) is build around tumbling, distorted guitar that recalls the Velvet Underground's "Heroin." French-Canadian singer Lhasa De Sela adds Gallic flavor to "Sometimes It Hurts," while "Just a Dog" finds Staples howling at the night. When it comes to dour balladry and Goth cabaret, Tindersticks deliver with disarming regularity. --Christopher Barrett

Product Description

The sixth studio album is of such lushness, romanticism, and power, it will, for many, become the classic Tindersticks album. 10 tracks. Digipak. Beggars Banquet. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better Than the Last One ... But Not by Much, July 3, 2003

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aemaet "aemaet" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waiting for the Moon (Audio CD)

If you love Tindersticks you will forgive this record; if you don't know them, it is a harmless, lightweight introduction to their majesty. Sorry to be the dissenting voice here, folks, but I think this album pales in comparison to "Curtains" and "Simple Pleasures." It isn't very complex and overall has a thinner sound to it -- and it is sorely hurt by Dickon's lackluster, conventional voice taking over so many vocals from Stuart's aching croon. I won't say it's Tindersticks-by-the-numbers because it's pleasant enough and has some wonderful stuff on it ("My Oblivion" is out-of-this-world fantastic in the grand, lush ballad tradition that would make Scott Walker proud ), and it's still better than "Can Our Love," but let's not overrate it, okay?

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, July 18, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Waiting for the Moon (Audio CD)

I'll start off by saying that I'm a big Tindersticks fan, and that I've loved most of their albums (with the exception of "Can our Love"). However, when I first listened to "Waiting for the Moon" I felt really disappointed. It seems flat, uninspired, and the band seems to be working in all too familiar territory. Gone is the passion and force behind such albums as "Tindersticks 2" and "Curtains". There are a few good tracks on this album, ("say goodbye to the city") but I'm beginning to think that the band may have peaked.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like fine wine, September 29, 2003

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N. Clark "arnuphis" (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waiting for the Moon (Audio CD)

They just get better with age. Been a fan of Tindersticks since their essential first album. This one will not come as a surprise to any long time fans but a great introduction for any new listeners.

At first I was wondering what was going on when the opening track didn't have Stuart Staples doing the vocals, but I find the secondary choice of singer pleasing but nowhere as good as the trademark clipped vocal croon that instantly identifies this fine band.

This album just gets better and better. 'My Oblivion' is a classic that ranks up there with the likes of 'City Sickness' and the brilliant second album. 'Say Goodbye to the city' and the almost familiar Staples duet with a chanteuse are other stand out cuts. Finally 'Just a Dog' with the wonderful line 'but at night I howl' and the way the entire musical arrangement bounces along until it starts to come apart at the seams. Brilliant stuff. Tindersticks remain one of the finest bands working today.