The British Tindersticks has acquired its own place within the alternative music landscape since the 1990s. With as a fixed value the sonorous and mumbling voice of singer Stuart A. Staples, this group has produced good and less good, but never purely bad records. At best, Tindersticks sounds like a combo playing the final song deep into the night in a dark nightclub. With their melancholic and
… unstable swinging white soul, they bring at the most a last drunken couple to dance while the last drinks are served at the bar. The jazzy opener Chocolate, with its declaimed and narrative text, does not yet capture that atmosphere, but with strong songs such as This Fire Of Autumn (with soulful female voices) and Medicine Staples and associates are completely in their dark and mournful element again.more
