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- Summary: The bands fifth studio album (and first for Beggars Banquet), 'Can Our Love...' features eight new tracks produced by the band with Ian Caple. It expands on the more-soul-based sound that appeared on 1999's 'Simple Pleasure.'
- Record Label: Beggars Banquet
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Alternative
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Can Our Love... is a minimalistic jewel, a soul wonder and an anomaly in a pop world.
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At 45 minutes, Can Our Love... is Tindersticks' most concise album yet, and it sacrifices nothing in content. Eight songs may not seem like much for a full album, but it's all this band needs to make a fully rewarding listen that only gets richer the more you visit.
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The settings are spacious, the rhythms stately and Stuart Staples croons woozily about how it's all gone horribly wrong.
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Can Our Love... finds the band still mining a quirky romantic sensibility, but with more honest soul than ever.
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MagnetIn the face of today's painfully formulaic R&B/hip hop, they come off as the most soulful act on the planet. [#51, p.123]
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On Can Our Love..., Tindersticks get heavily into Seventies soul, which expands their sound with more depth than ever before.
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The same old sombre samba, perhaps, but with a renewed sense of direction, it's threatening to take them somewhere fantastic.
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