Curtains

by Tindersticks

Curtains cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 24 June 1997
  • Label: This Way Up
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:00:12
  • Community rating: 3.97/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: Ann Child, Suzannah Marsden, Rob Spriggs, Stuart A. Staples, Paul Medd, Beki Doe, Lucy Wilkins, Vic Evans, Dmitri Van Zwanenberg, Jonathan Acton, Lucy Shaw, Ruth Gottlieb, Calina De La Mare, Rosie Lindsell, David Patman, Ted Wood, Harvey Brown, Oliver Kraus, Becca Ware, Howard Gott, Caroline Luckhurst, Lisa Graham, Joe De Jesus, Anna Chalmers, Sophie Sirota, Charles Nancarrow, Chris Koh, Sarah Wilson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Curtains' continues Tindersticks' mastery of incredibly lush, orchestral chamber pop. The album pairs elegant, cinematic string arrangements with Stuart Staples' deep baritone, resulting in a profoundly somber, romantic, and deeply sensual exploration of longing and heartbreak.

Genres

Descriptors: orchestral, chamber, lounge, crooning, sophisticated

Tracklist

  1. Another Night In (5:12)
  2. Rented Rooms (5:12)
  3. Don't Look Down (4:18)
  4. Dick's Slow Song (4:09)
  5. The Fast One (1:52)
  6. Ballad Of Tindersticks (7:37)
  7. Dancing (2:56)
  8. Let's Pretend (3:21)
  9. Desperate Man (3:21)
  10. Buried Bones (4:03)
  11. Bearsuit (2:11)
  12. (Tonight) Are You Trying To Fall In Love Again (3:07)
  13. I Was Your Man (3:39)
  14. Bathtime (4:03)
  15. Walking (5:06)

Credits

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