Tindersticks - 'Don't Even Go There EP' (Beggars Banquet)
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By: Toby L
It's hard to believe, but the legendary Tindersticks have quietly been brandishing just this sort of refined, high-brow delicatessen-counter level art-indie for a veritable patch now. Quite why or how their impact has failed to spread towards the further reaches of the mainstream ever remains a curious secret, but at least with age comes - rarely, and thankfully - a band still proving their faultless worth on a near-epic scale time and time again.
Not that they're likely to shout or brashly proclaim this themselves - the sextet are so unassumingly understated, it's almost as if they don't exist at all. But the cavernous depths and misty undercurrent running throughout latest-EP, 'Don't Even Go There', is testament to some form of consistent wonderment - the slick, strings-dripping majesty of 'Trying To Find A Home' (a track that, to be more classy, would be a sin), moody instrumental of 'Sexual Funk' and jazz-y shuffle of 'Everything Changes' (miraculously not the Take That one) as coherent and damn commanding as any band this intelligent could ever strive to be.
One for the part of the record-collection marked 'blisteringly brilliant'.
Artists in this article: Tindersticks
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