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The Hungry Saw
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 20 critic reviews
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Album Info
Label: Constellation
Release Date: 16 September 2008
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rock, Indie
Summary
The seventh album for the English trio is its first in more than five years.
Also By This Artist: Can Our Love... Falling Down A Mountain Trouble Every Day [Soundtrack] Waiting For The Moon
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
Tindersticks remains a champion at feel-bad soul strings, but those who've found the group's previous work oppressive might want to try again: Staples' vocals haven't changed, but with the music as pared-down as one of their impressionistic soundtracks, it's a new sound.
Read Full Review >All Music Guide
Tindersticks have never failed to satisfy anyone looking not only for sadness but also those looking for albums that make you feel and songs that will stick with you for a long time. The Hungry Saw is classic Tindersticks.
Read Full Review >Under The Radar
Tindersticks have proven themselves to be a rare exception to what feels like a general rule of let-down albums by reunited bands. [Fall 2008, p.84]
Hartford Courant
Few songwriters are capable of making misery sound so elegant, and even desirable.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe
The years away may have recharged Staples's batteries, but the music itself sounds much the same, which is a good thing.
Read Full Review >NOW Magazine
The Hungry Saw may make Leonard Cohen’s stuff sound positively giddy, but it’s a positive turn for the Tindersticks.
Read Full Review >Blender
THe British balladeers have returned after a long layoff as elegantly miserable as ever. [Oct 2008, p.83]
Dusted Magazine
England’s most defiantly rococo pop group can make a richly detailed record without really trying.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
It may sound less dense, but The Hungry Saw is as dark, mysterious and seductive as ever. [May 2008, p.141]
Mojo
Flawless.
Tiny Mix Tapes
It’s not an incredibly remarkable record, but when a band is this consistent for this long, it’s hard to fault it.
Read Full Review >Prefix Magazine
Ultimately, it comes down to the vagaries of taste, but measured against their previous output and current contenders, The Hungry Saw is a sleeper of a bar-chapped, morosely drunk record.
Read Full Review >Pitchfork
The Hungry Saw's temperate approach feels like the work of a band who are grateful for a new lease on life, but not sure exactly what to do with it, proffering brief experiments that amount to little more than amusing curios (the self-explanatory "The Organist Entertains") or instrumentals that sound like guide tracks waiting for a vocal supplement (the tremoloed psychedelic samba of "E Type").
Read Full Review >PopMatters
The band were making good music before they split, and the revamped lineup have picked up right where the previous incarnation left off.
Read Full Review >Dot Music
What will draw fans old and new to this record, however, is the melancholia of Tindersticks frontman Stuart Staples' vocals, which become especially poignant on the forlorn 'Other Side Of The World.'
Read Full Review >Drowned In Sound
The one slight that could be pinned on the The Hungry Saw is that there’s very little here that couldn’t slot seamlessly into any of the group’s output over the last 16 years.
Read Full Review >Magnet
Led by mercurial crooner Stuart Staples, the current lineup’s grand balladry is more stately and slow-boiled than ever.
Read Full Review >Observer Music Monthly
There's no stand-out to match 'Tiny Tears' or 'Marbles' but Stuart Staples's crumpled voice and the distinctively intricate arrangements summon Lee Hazlewood's tear-flecked, bruised spirit.
Read Full Review >Uncut
Tindersticks have returned refreshed, but some of the old dissolute glamour is gone.
Read Full Review >Spin
Powered by rattling drums, simmering organ, and Stuart Staples' resonant baritone, the first half of Tindersticks' latest is a can't-miss proposition....Too bad the disc's second half descends into a morass of half-finished, melancholic curios that mostly go nowhere lowly.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
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