Oh, we at "le petit Mix" are a precocious bunch. When we’re not bulldozing our way into freebie shows to load up on backstage grub and booze, we are camped out at a hidden (but not too hidden) table at your trendy neighborhood café, putting on airs of world-weariness and intense sophistication, scribbling furiously in our Moleskin notebooks (Who cares if they cost $20 a piece? If they are good enough for Hemmingway, they’re good enough for us!), desperately hoping you see us jotting down ideas for the next great American novel (or more often than not, a to-do list or some god-awful poetry that would make even our mom's vomit). You see, we like to think that beneath our testosterone-fueled outer shells beats a tender heart seeking attention... any attention you will afford it. In this case, it’s a "tinder" heart, for when one of us gets the chance to report on the where- and what-abouts of truly classy gents like Tindersticks, our love muscles skip some beats.
While Tindersticks have always had the sophisticated style down pat, they also have always oozed bountiful pop beauty since their inception. They are basically everything we strive to be, but are not. So with news of a new album finally getting its deserved North American release, there is a reason to stand tall and look good. After a five-year break, Tindersticks will issue The Hungry Saw September 16 through the very apropos Constellation Records (released in UK/Europe in April). Recorded by original members David Boulter, Neil Fraser, and Stuart Staples, along with Thomas Belhom and Dan McKinna on drums and bass respectively, and a host of helping hands at Staples' Le Chien Chanceux studio, The Hungry Saw is more than a welcome return from one of the UK's most beloved acts. Constellation, no strangers to impeccable style themselves, will release The Hungry Saw this summer on digital download and in September with updated artwork and a fine artstock lyric booklet on CD and 180-gram virgin vinyl.
1. Introduction
2. Yesterdays Tomorrows
3. The Flicker of a Little Girl
4. Come Feel the Sun
5. E-Type
6. The Other Side of the World
7. The Organist Entertains
8. The Hungry Saw
9. Mother Dear
10. Boobar Come Back to Me
11. All the Love
12. The Turns We Took
And because you know damn well that NOTHING gets a crowd into a moshing frenzy like the noir melancholy of Tindersticks, here's some summer and fall shows:
07.20.08 - Suffolk, England - Latitude Festival
08.08.08 - Zambujeira do Mar, Portugal - Sudoeste Festival
08.14.08 - St. Malo, France - Route du Rock
08.15.08 - Hasselt-Kiewit, Belgium - Pukkelpop Festival
08.16.08 - Halden, Norway - Down on the Farm Festival
08.29.08 - Co. Laois, Ireland - Electric Picnic Festival
09.11.08 - Reykjavik, Iceland - Nasa
09.14.08 - North Dorset, England - End of the Road Festival
10.05.08 - Glasgow, Scotland - City Hall
