Tindersticks Get "Hungry" In September

“… beautiful, tempered melancholy and delicate irony…”

By Blurt Staff

Tindersticks’ first album in five years, The Hungry Saw, drops September 16 courtesy Canadian tastemaker label Constellation. (Import-bin trawlers may have already spotted it earlier this year; it came out in April in Europe on Beggars Banquet.)

We are advised that the album  finds original members Stuart Staples, David Boulter and Neil Fraser augmented by the rhythm section of Thomas Belhom (drums) and Dan McKinna (bass). A long list of guest players was also included in the sessions, including Terry Edwards on horns and brass arrangements, and Lucy Wilkins on lead violin and string arrangements. Recorded at Le Chien Chanceux studio, The Hungry Saw sessions were unlike any the band had previously known. The bulk of the recording came in a breakneck blast of just eight inspired days, with the quality and quantity of songs making for some hard choices when it came to whittle things down to a cohesive album.

“While cloaked in the inimitably beautiful, tempered melancholy and delicate irony that has marked Tindersticks' past oeuvre, The Hungry Saw bristles with renewed energy, focus, experimentation and, yes, even playfulness. It is a welcome return by one of the most interesting and literate English bands of the last two decades. Constellation's North American edition of The Hungry Saw features revised artwork printed on a cardstock CD gatefold jacket, accompanied by a lyric booklet printed on fine artstock recycled paper. The LP release is on 180 gram virgin vinyl with multiple inserts. The album will also be available as a digital download this summer.”

Interestingly, the band’s been on hiatus since 2003’s Waiting for the Moon. During that time Staples released two solo platters and did a film soundtrack. Then in 2006 the band came back together to perform their eponymous 1995 album in its entirety as part of ATP’s acclaimed “Don’t Look Back” series. The ad hoc reunion clicked, and the Tindersticks were back on track, ultimately leading to this new record.

Tracklisting:

 1.  Introduction

 2.  Yesterdays Tomorrows

 3.  The Flicker Of A Little Girl

 4.  Come Feel The Sun

 5.  E-Type

 6.  The Other Side Of The World

 7.  The Organist Entertains

 8.  The Hungry Saw

 9.  Mother Dear

10. Boobar Come Back To Me

11. All The Love

12. The Turns We Took

Tindersticks Tour Dates:

Jul 20 2008      9:45P

            Latitude Festival         Southwold, Suffolk

Aug 8 2008     9:30P

            Sudoeste Festival        Zambujeira do Mar

Aug 14 2008   8:00P

            Route Du Rock Festival         St Malo

Aug 15 2008   8:00P

            Pukkelpop Festival      Hasselt-Kiewit

Aug 16 2008   8:00P

            Down On The Farm    Gribsrod Gard, 1796 Kornsjo

Aug 29 2008   8:00P

            Electric Picnic Festival (29/30/31 August) - tindersticks day tbc       Stradbally, Laois

Sep 11 2008    9:00P

            Nasa    Reykjavik

Sep 14 2008    8:00P

            End Of The Road Festival      Dorset