Three years on from their last album proper (The Waiting Room) and armed with a pair of scissors, Stuart Staples announces new Tindersticks album ‘No Treasure But Hope’ and shares new single video ‘The Amputees’ on which he did all the snipping…
With this new album, Staples felt a need “to make something meaningful,” not that they’d not made anything meaningful before…
“The last two albums were gradually built to a point of being finished in our studio from moments of playing and recording together. When we figured out how to present the songs live, different things happened to them. This time, we wanted to reverse that – to do something that was about being committed to a song together in a moment.”
The solution was daring…essentially shorten the recording process in the hope that this tension, akin to performing live, would act as a conduit “to really listen to one another” …and they did it, “Five weeks from the first notes recorded to the mastering.”
Set for release on 15th November via City Slang, the recording process included acoustic rehearsals around a piano, six days playing live in a Paris studio and one day in London to record strings/brass.
We’re promised an album that upholds the band’s career-long commitment to interior exploration with a passion.
The album cover, for those wondering, shows Ithaka, a Greek island located in the Ionian Sea which is also Staples new home where he wrote the lyrics for the album in Autumn 2018. “People here say that Ithaca is the end of your journey…A final destination…”
This may be a new beginning.
‘No Treasure But Hope’ will be released on November 15th via City Slang. Pre-order – https://tindersticks.lnk.to/NoTreasureButHope
Photo credit: Richard Dumas