User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
- Summary: The seventh album for the English trio is its first in more than five years.
- Record Label: Constellation
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 17 out of 20
-
Mixed: 3 out of 20
-
Negative: 0 out of 20
-
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.
-
MojoFlawless.
-
It’s not an incredibly remarkable record, but when a band is this consistent for this long, it’s hard to fault it.
-
England’s most defiantly rococo pop group can make a richly detailed record without really trying.
-
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").
-
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.
-
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.
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 0 out of
-
Mixed: 0 out of
-
Negative: 0 out of