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| | village voice > music > Tindersticks by Jessica Winter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) |
 | | Curtains was a last call of sorts: Tindersticks' next effort, 1999's wan Simple Pleasure, found the droll philosophes with a bad case of tourism, plunging earnestly into lockstep, sexless soul with pseudo-gospel strains and consistently comprehensible vocals. |
 | | Tindersticks' trajectory, in fact, does have its affinities with R.E.M.'s: an unfairly maligned Difficult Third Album clears the decks and the lead singer's nasal passages, and what's gone from the later work, however accomplished it may be, is that startling strangeness, the rare, eerie thrill of hearing something that sounds only like itself. |
 | | And as with Michael Stipe, Tindersticks' finest creative collaborations of late have been in the filmmaking arena: composing the scores for arthouse movies. |
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