Product Description

Sixth album (not counting soundtracks) from Nottingham chamber pop miserablists and their second for Beggars Banquet following 2001's 'Can Our Love...'. Keeping the 70s soul soundof that album but featuring some of their most sorrowful songs since their debut, it includes 'Trying To Find A Home' from their 'Don't Even Go There' EP and a duet with Mexican-American chanteuse Lhasa de Sela.

Track Listing

1. Until The Morning Comes
2. Say Good Bye To The City
3. Sweet Memory
4. 4:48 Psychosis
5. Waiting For The Moon
6. Trying To Find a Home
7. Sometimes it Hurts
8. My Oblivion
9. Just a Dog
10. Running Wild

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #54739 in Music
• Released on: 2003-06-09
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

Customer Reviews

Waiting for a tune
They started well. I have been avidly buying all the 'sticks releases since I heard them doing 'My sister' live on a late night slot on R1. I think the second offering was probably their finest moment and a piece of creative genious. Since then the mediocre tracks have started to appear on the releases and we get more "Pretty Words (Simple Pleasures) and less Tiny Tears (Second album)I think this probably stems from the time when they found out they could flog us soundtracks.

Well this time they have succeded in packing a CD with mediocrity. If a mate lent you this and you didnt know the history I dont think you would listen to it more than once. I suspect some of you reviewers are listening to your memories rather than the music.

Waiting for the moon, more like waiting for a tune.

Nicholas Breakwell
Wiltshire

Dickon's dominance
I have been a Tindersticks-fan for many years. But after the splendid album "Simple Pleasures" and the rather disappointing "Can Our Love", I had the feeling their inspiration had run dry. Was I wrong!
This is definitely a good album, even though it does not have tracks that really stand out, except maybe "My Oblivion", which is currently my favourite track.
What struck me was the big influence of Dickon Hinchliffe on this album. His singing is much more prominent. He has written or co-written most of the lyrics.
Having listened to the album a number of times, I should say that it sounds more mellow, more romantic than most previous albums. Most tracks do not have that "dark edge" that would characterise Tindersticks' music in the past.
I dare say, it is an album to listen to while your watching the summer sun set in the West, with a glass of wine, and with an absent loved one on your mind who is due to return in the next couple of days. Melancholy and Romance.

A band on a roll
Tindersticks are an under-appreciated gem of a band. They take the warmth of 'real' soul music and cross it with the melancholy of alt-country, whilst maintaining a skewed good humour.

With this album they haven't changed in any great way, just refined the souful vision that started with 'Simple Pleasure' and taken it further. 'Waiting for the Moon' has a mainly ballad-led feel, with an increased input from Dickon Hinchcliffe (their violinist and string arranger), who turns-in some impressive songwriting and singing contributions.

It's slow, at times dark, but emotionally direct and true. Tracks like 'Until The Morning Comes' and 'Sweet Memory' have a purity that strikes home without melodrama. The fact that this album is just as good as their last two, which were superb, means this is a band on a roll and one worth paying attention to over the years to come.