New musical chapter for Tindersticks. The band led by Stuart A Staples today releases “New World”, a new single (and video) from the album “Soft Tissue”, which will be released next September. On October 31st, however, the British band will be guests of the Il Rumore del Lutto festival at the Teatro al Parco in Parma.
L'artwork of the album and the video are edited by Stuart A Staples himself and his daughter Sidonie Osborne Staples.
Watch the video clip for “New World” below.
Five years after “No Treasure But Hope” (2019) and three years after “Distractions” in 2021, Tindersticks return with the new album “Soft Tissue” out on City Slang on September 13, 2024. “New World”, the first track written for “Soft Tissue”, anticipates some of the central themes of the album. The arrangements – underlines a note from the group – pick up where 'The Waiting Room' of 2016 left off and guide the album into a feverish terrain, in balance between the band unleashing itself, Julian Siegel's brass arrangements, the arrangements of strings by Dan McKinna and soulful backing vocals by Gina Foster. Meanwhile, Staples' introspective reflections lead to a refrain depicted on a banner in the playful promotional video: 'I won't let my love become my weakness.'”
“Soft Tissue – explained Staples – was born from our ambition, which here takes the form of a fluid and inquiring vision of what Tindersticks can be today, linked to a sense of mutual trust between the band members. I think that between us there's so much… I was going to say talent, but it has nothing to do with talent, actually, it's about that desire, that need to achieve something and go where you feel like feeling like there was any kind of restriction, or any dogma about what this record could be, beyond where it takes us and what excites us.”
The album is available for preorder in all formats, as well as in an exclusive limited edition vinyl set that includes a special 7″ “New World /Falling The Light” on City Slang here.
Here the tracklist complete and the cover of the new album “Soft Tissue”:
1. New World
2. Don't Walk, Run
3. Nancy
4. Falling, The Light
5. Always a Stranger
6. The Secret of Breathing
7. Turned My Back
8. Soon to be April
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM