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- Summary: Leaving Songs is the Nashville-recorded second solo disc for Tindersticks frontman Stuart Staples, who is joined by Maria McKee on one track.
- Record Label: Beggars Banquet
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 11 out of 11
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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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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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MojoIt might have been captured anytime in the past four decades. [Jul 2006, p.114]
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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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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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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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Tindersticks fans will find very familiar, likable material on Leaving Songs.
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Positive: 5 out of 5
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kentJul 3, 2006nice voice, nice album!
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FrankJun 28, 2006Beautiful! Great record!
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AlexMSep 28, 2006intense!
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claudioeApr 24, 2007great record.
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GuyHJul 28, 2006
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