Tindersticks Announce"The Waiting Room" (Jan 22nd, City Slang)

Tindersticks’ ‘The Waiting Room’, which is released on Jan 22nd via City Slang.

Throughout their two-decade career, Tindersticks have become known as masters of restraint and human emotion, led by the sophistication and rich baritone of Stuart Staples. On January 22nd via City Slang, the band will release The Waiting Room, their most elaborate and diverse album to date. It’s also an ambitious collaborative film project where each song on the album will be accompanied by a short film, and toured with a series of cine-film events.

Their first studio album since 2012’s critically acclaimed ‘The Something Rain’ (9/10 DiS, 8.1 pitchfork, 8/10 the Quietus, 8/10 DIY, 4/5 Guardian, 4/5 Independent on Sunday, 4/5 Uncut, 4/5 Q, 4/5 Observer) is the most ambitious, diverse and elaborate album you’ll have heard from Tindersticks in recent years. Two decades into their musical voyage Tindersticks, established masters of restraint and poetic human emotion, are a band now confidently creating the best songs of their career.

Watch We Are Dreamers (ft Jehnny Beth)

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The Waiting Room’ breathes gravity and features guest appearances by Jehnny Beth of Savages and a particularly poignant duet with dear lost friend of Stuart Staples, Lhasa De Sela. Its brass arrangements are by the great Julian Siegel and it comes dressed in a sleeve by legendary french photographer Richard Dumas.

Not only an album, an ambitious collaborative film project also – each track is accompanied by a short film, a visual interpretation by it’s own director, featuring Christoph Girardet, Pierre Vinour, Claire Denis, Rosie Pedlow and Joe King, Gregorio Graziosi, Richard Dumas and Gabriel Sanna.

‘The Waiting Room’ will be available as a limited edition CD/DVD, LP /DVD and very limited clear vinyl LP/DVD via City Slang on Jan 22^nd2016. The release will be accompanied by a series of live cine-concert events including one at London’s Barbican. Details below.

Hey Lucinda (ft Lhasa De Sela)

The Waiting Room Cine-Concert live events:

11 February – Clermont-Ferrand, FR @ Clermont-Ferrand ISFF

13, 14 February – Berlin, DE @ Volksbuehne

19, 20, 21 April – Paris, FR @ Le Bouffes du Nord

26 April – Copenhagen, DK @ Chp Pix

29 April – London, UK @ The Barbican

30 April – Coventry, UK @ Warwick Arts Centre

01 May – Liverpool, UK @ Liverpool Phil

02 May – Manchester, UK @ Bridgewater Hall

03 May – Edinburgh, UK @ Usher Hall

04 May – Gateshead, UK @ The Sage

06 May – Cambridge, UK @ Corn Exchange

07 May – Bristol, UK @ Colston Hall

Tindersticks – “The Waiting Room” (Jan 22nd, City Slang)

Release date: Friday, January 22nd 2016

Tracks:

1. Follow Me

2. Second Chance Man

3. Were We Once Lovers?

4. Help Yourself
5. Hey Lucinda

6. Fear of Emptiness

7. How He Entered

8. The Waiting Room

9. Planting Holes

10. We Are Dreamers

11. Like Only Lovers Can