Soft Tissue

by Tindersticks

Soft Tissue cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 13 September 2024
  • Label: City Slang
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 43:10
  • Community rating: 3.43/5 from 9 ratings

Artists on this release: David Boulter, Dan McKinna, Terry Edwards, Neil Fraser, Earl Harvin, Stuart A. Staples, Gina Foster

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Now deep into their third decade, the sophisticated British collective continues to refine their meticulously arranged, cinematic chamber pop. Stuart Staples's trademark murmuring baritone floats above incredibly lush, nocturnal horn and string orchestrations, conveying intense feelings of aging, melancholy, and understated romantic yearning.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, orchestral, crooning, string arrangements, literary

Tracklist

  1. New World (5:21)
  2. Don't Walk, Run (5:25)
  3. Nancy (3:35)
  4. Falling, the Light (3:58)
  5. Always a Stranger (5:57)
  6. The Secret of Breathing (4:41)
  7. Turned My Back (6:15)
  8. Soon to Be April (4:06)
  9. New World - Edit (3:47)

Credits

  • Tindersticks - primary artist
  • Sidonie Osborne Staples - artwork
  • Gemma Moore - brass [brass section], baritone saxophone
  • Julian Siegel - brass [brass section], tenor saxophone, arranged by [brass arrangement]
  • Trevor Mires - brass [brass section], trombone
  • Ryan Quigley - brass [brass section], trumpet
  • Jasdaface - lacquer cut by
  • Dan McKinna - songwriter, bass, arranged by [string arrangement], bass, electric piano [wurlitzer piano], arranged by [brass arrangement], bass, synth

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