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Leaving Songs sounds a lot like a Tindersticks album, one that eschews their more baroque offerings for mature balladry.
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He emerges here as a more "traditional" kind of songwriter; the tunes are more conventional in structure, but like his spiritual mentor Leonard Cohen, Staples' lyrics are rooted firmly in the terrain of love, loss, regret, passage, dissolution, and absence.
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Its warmth, honesty and intuitive sensitivity capture Stuart Staples firmly back to the dizzy high-quality heights of his cherishable early-career with the Tindersticks.
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UncutStately, thoughtful balladry. [Jun 2006, p.115]
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If you loved Tindersticks then you will adore this.
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MojoIt might have been captured anytime in the past four decades. [Jul 2006, p.114]
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New Musical Express (NME)It's heady stuff, that fans of Serge Gainsbourg, Nick Cave, Scott Walker and anyone else that's ever sung miserable songs in a rumpled suit will be at home with. [10 Jun 2006, p.43]
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As a solo record, it's no declaration of independence, but by sticking to what he does best, Staples makes it ring with sadness and sophistication.
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Not surprisingly, this record sounds very much like a Tindersticks album. Or, rather, it sounds like a well-chosen compilation of that band’s more restrained and subdued material.
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It's a pleasure to be embraced by a record this pretty and soulful.
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Tindersticks fans will find very familiar, likable material on Leaving Songs.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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claudioeApr 24, 2007great record.
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AlexMSep 28, 2006intense!
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GuyHJul 28, 2006