2013 is a landmark year for Tindersticks who turn 21 this year. In this time they have recorded nine studio albums, composed music for films, museums, fashion shows and installations, have toured the world, played with various orchestras, dueted and collaborated with many great singers and musicians, lost their desire, split up, rearranged, reformed, re-kindled their musical passion and in 2012 made what they, and many critics consider to be one of their finest studio albums "The Something Rain|".
Tindersticks wanted to mark this special anniversary year in some way, to connect this history with what they have become. After much discussion they entered the legendary Studio 2 at Abbey Road and from 6th – 9th April 2013 recorded Across six leap years, their 10th studio album; 10 new versions of songs from throughout their history. Across the years some songs were “lost along the way”. For one reason or another they never became how they were imagined to be in their recorded form…until now. Across Six Leap Years brings together these previously unrealised tracks as part celebration, part reinvention.
‘Recording these songs again was not so much about righting past mistakes or inadequacies, but more about the power of now. It’s something that’s been growing since the film shows, something that made us recognise how we feel now, and connecting that to our past feels important.
In the meantime, so far this year the band have already published a book of paintings and selected lyrics ("Singing Skies"), as well as putting on exhibitions of the paintings and accompanying them with intimate acoustic performances, and released a soundtrack for the new Claire Denis film ("Les Salauds" / "The Bastards").
Tindersticks play Vicar Street, Dublin on Thursday 24 October as part of their Across Six Leap Years Anniversary Tour.
Tindersticks wanted to mark this special anniversary year in some way, to connect this history with what they have become. After much discussion they entered the legendary Studio 2 at Abbey Road and from 6th – 9th April 2013 recorded Across six leap years, their 10th studio album; 10 new versions of songs from throughout their history. Across the years some songs were “lost along the way”. For one reason or another they never became how they were imagined to be in their recorded form…until now. Across Six Leap Years brings together these previously unrealised tracks as part celebration, part reinvention.
‘Recording these songs again was not so much about righting past mistakes or inadequacies, but more about the power of now. It’s something that’s been growing since the film shows, something that made us recognise how we feel now, and connecting that to our past feels important.
In the meantime, so far this year the band have already published a book of paintings and selected lyrics ("Singing Skies"), as well as putting on exhibitions of the paintings and accompanying them with intimate acoustic performances, and released a soundtrack for the new Claire Denis film ("Les Salauds" / "The Bastards").
Tindersticks play Vicar Street, Dublin on Thursday 24 October as part of their Across Six Leap Years Anniversary Tour.
