Tindersticks Album: “Nénette et Boni [Canada Bonus CD]”

This is the first Tindersticks album I ever bought, and the most lush, beautiful album I've heard in a long time. The vocalist, whoever he is, sounds an awful lot like Nick Cave or Leonard Cohen (and a friend of mine who heard the album thought he sounded like Tim Curry in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show,") but he has more feeling in his voice than Nicky ever did.

Actually, most of the songs are instrumentals with an emphasis on strings and piano, but Track 8 has vocals, and it's one of the sweetest songs I've heard--I keep playing it over and over.

Low-key, sometimes funky, moody, and definitely spooky, this is totally worth getting. I wish I knew more about the film it's a soundtrack for.

An exquisitely beautiful, if melancholy, set of tracks. Imagine a Morcheeba instrumental, put Schubert on the piano, and picture yourself in a smoky Parisian jazz club. Truly divine.

Tindersticks are well presented in my CD collection. Only this one perhaps shouldn't have been added. The usual intens listening experience makes place for waiting something better to turn up. But even the bonus CD does not bring relief. The alternative versions are often less exciting as the originals. It could be the missing of Stuart Staples voice on the main part of this album, although this is not the case while listening 'More Trouble Eveyday' over and over. Or the little amount of string arrangments. But I'm affraid it's the feeling being Tindertricked with some leftovers. It's a good thing Stuart Staples' recently released solo album makes up in any way.