Tindersticks Stream Album, Preview Video

Album due Feb. 16; view new video below.

By Blurt Staff

With the new Tindersticks album, Falling Down a Mountain, due in stores on Feb. 16 via Constellation, the British band is doing the smart thing and giving us fans a sneak peek. The entire record is currently streaming at the album's official site:

http://fallingdownamountain.com/listen/

It's allready receiving rave reviews abroad - there's a newly colorful, textured, dynamic and at times even exuberant musical personality for the rejuvenated band (the Tindersticks came out of semi-hibernation in 2008 following a 5-year break). The recordings were very much a group effort, built from a foundation of original members, Stuart Staples (guitar, voice), David Boulter (keyboards) and Neil Fraser (guitar), plus long time collaborator Terry Edwards (trumpet) and more recent recruits Dan McKinna (bass) and Andy Nice (cello), all of whom appeared on the band's ‘08 album, The Hungry Saw, and the fresh additions of Earl Harvin (drums, vocals), David Kitt (guitar, vocals) and a rare guest vocal appearance by Mary Margaret O'Hara.

Watch BLURT for a full review of the album the week of its release. Meanwhile, there's a video for key track "Black Smoke" making the rounds. Over the past decade Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard have risen to acclaim making experimental video works and live performances mining music culture, including their 1998 reenactment of David Bowie's last show as Ziggy Stardust, "A Rock 'N' Roll Suicide", and their remake of the videotape of the near-mythical performance by The Cramps at Napa Mental Institute in 1978, "File under Sacred Music". Following a request from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, for whom they've been working with extensively, Forsyth and Pollard have started to expand their practice to work on music promo videos, viral projects and short documentaries. They are also ardent Tindersticks fans - hence this one for "Black Smoke."

Tindersticks: Black Smoke from Iain & Jane on Vimeo.