Waiting For The Moon
by Tindersticks
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. AllMusic
    60
    Few bands can get away with being in a holding pattern like Tindersticks.
  2. Blender
    80
    The perfect introduction to Tindersticks' queasy, cinematic elegance. [Aug 2003, p.133]
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  3. Delusions of Adequacy
    80
    A heart-meltingly wonderful return to form.
  5. Dusted Magazine
    80
    We're on familiarly bleak and gloomy (although not entirely unironic) Tindersticks ground here and, in the case of this band, familiarity certainly doesn't breed contempt.
  6. Junkmedia
    88
    A lucid and diverse record.
  7. Magnet
    80
    A wounded angel of a pop record ono which malice and sorrow are offset by rapturous surges of strings. [#60, p.117]
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  8. Mojo
    70
    Finds them fine-tuning their class act, Dickon Hinchcliffe's choice string arrangements underpinning a typically careworn set. [Jul 2003, p.107]
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  9. Neumu.net
    50
    Tindersticks have always made music that conjures up smoke: songs that are elusive, wispy and ephemeral, sung by men with somewhat rough smokers' voices. With Waiting for the Moon, unfortunately, little remains once the smoke clears.
  10. Pitchfork
    83
    Waiting for the Moon is just what I needed from Tindersticks: an album that doesn't abandon their recent direction, but breathes new life into it by drawing breath from their noisier past.
  11. PopMatters
    90
    An album of assured breadth, filled with a renewed self-confidence.
  12. Q Magazine
    80
    A startling collection of heart-bruising ballads reminiscent of Nick Cave at his most maudlin. [Aug 2003, p.115]
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  13. Splendid
    90
    Waiting For The Moon is a welcome and singularly strong addition to one of the most impressive catalogues in modern music.
  14. The A.V. Club
    70
    It's a beautiful, brooding expanse, but a well-traveled one.
  15. Uncut
    60
    Very much string-drenched business as usual: sometimes lovely, sometimes perilously close to self-parody. [Jul 2003, p.129]
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  16. Under The Radar
    90
    Magnetic.... There isn't an uninteresting song on the whole thing. [#5, p.110]
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User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 6 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. al
    Jun 17, 2004
    8
    i don't think its their best album, certainly it isn't their worst , but it got the best song they have ever write: my oblivion
  2. nikosk
    Jun 23, 2003
    8
    great album for all tinder fans...as long as you dont expect radical style changes... closer to the atmosphere of their 2nd one
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