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Album Review
by SashaS
26-9-2001
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Tindersticks: 'Trouble Every Day'
(Beggars Banquet)
Tindersticks provide a soundtrack for Sunday mornings after passionate Saturday nights
Soundtracks are usually functional music that has to enhance, underscore, even undermine dramatic/comic/action visuals. They often do not stand on their own as pieces of creativity, with the certain exceptions. Tindersticks’ ‘Trouble Every Day’ is a work that lives in its own universe. The aural backing to a controversial film by Claire Denis works on its own like a dream-cum-nightmare.
Easing in with a vocal track ‘Opening Titles’, it then descends into minimalistic pieces entitled ‘Dream’, ‘Houses’, ‘Maid Theme’, that hover just above silence. Single tones and (pregnancy-like) overdue silences simply punctuate the power of bareness. It certainly is not what you cram in but what you leave out.
‘Room 321’, ’Computer’ and ‘Notre Dame’ continue the sombre mood by allowing so much space inbetween that you have to fill it in. It makes you feel dizzy with anticipiation, unless your imagination is having a Sunday off. This is perfect music for chilling out, nothing to distract from the magic of sounds, at all. No gimmicks, just pure music, an aurual celebration of all things of the ‘Bermuda triangle’ of emotional, passionate, obsessive.
It is snail-paced work without falling into pathos or descending into melancholic per se; it is musique-nouveau but then, T-sticks have always been known for rekindling the dormant, the ignored, the forgotten. None of that rock-acousto rubbish, this is miles above the commercial ground.
There’s always been some dignity, an uber-purpose with this band, some sense of higher design. ‘Killing Theme’ is so valiantly distant from what the title suggests, it is almost elegantly menacing, if that’s not an oxymoron. ‘Core On Stairs/Love Theme’ is hardly audible like heartbeats of a clandestine liason, the supressed desire although hormones are on a stand-by for a strike.
‘Maid Theme (end)’ and ‘Closing Titles’ glide us out into the grim, bleak and overcrowded immaturity we call living, daylight hurting one’s blood-shot eyes. ‘Killing Theme’ is then offered in an alternative version and the film’s title-song closes this onic exhibition of variations into self-examination.
In the world of music targetted at ‘A.I.’ kind, this is an album for bloodied humans. Can’t ask for more after multiple orgasms, can you now?
8.5/10
SashaS
26-9-2001
Tindersticks’ ‘Trouble Every Day’ OST is released 01 October 2001 on Beggars Banquet
Wordage: 376; Wed., 26 Sept. 2001; 09:56:53am
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