Tindersticks Announce New Album Soft Tissue Out September 13 via City Slang Official Video for New Single “New World” Out Today Extensive European Tour Expands To Paris, London, Amsterdam, Glasgow, Dublin & More |
 Artwork by Sidonie Osborne Staples |
May 14, 2024: Today, Tindersticks announced their new studio album Soft Tissue, out on September 13 via City Slang. The album announces with the official video for the album’s opening track, “New World,” the first song written for Soft Tissue and a springboard for the album’s thematic concerns about personal and public worlds knocked off-kilter. The stop motion video, along with the album’s stunning artwork, were created with Stuart Staples’ daughter Sidonie Osborne Staples. Soft Tissue is now available for pre-order on all formats as well as an exclusive limited edition vinyl bundle including a special 7” New World / Falling the Light available from City Slang. About the new video, Stuart Staples explains: “Sid was making these tiny ceramic characters, so I asked her to make some of the band. Later I wrote this song ‘New World’ about somehow trying make sense of this strange world I felt developing around me and these little guys came back into my mind - Let's take them on a stop motion journey across a strange land, from the barren rocks to the bountiful fruit that is not familiar and maybe poisonous. Sid put the landscapes together and moved the figures, millimeters at a time. Neil Fraser took the photographs, we edited as we went along.” A tangible sense of mutual curiosity propels the five members of Tindersticks to fresh territory on Soft Tissue, their 14th studio album. Previously, on No Treasure but Hope (2019), these mavens of mood and beauty had embraced a kind of dusky, live-sounding naturalism, followed by the bracingly executed experimental left-turns of 2021’s Distractions. As resilient and flexible as its title suggests, Soft Tissue connects and exceeds those extremes, drawing new life from the contrasts and convergences of its tight, intuitive songs and restless details. Nurtured into being by the band and their collaborators as a kind of open “conversation,” the result is the sound of a band inspired by a fervent shared desire – and capacity – to surprise themselves. About Soft Tissue, Staples adds: “‘Baby I was falling, but the shit that I was falling through. Thought it was just the world rising.’ These are the opening lines of the album, it seems all the songs on ‘Soft Tissue’ inhabit this confusion somehow - despairing at the destruction, suspecting you are responsible. Musically, it seemed that since 2016’s 'The Waiting Room', the band's output had been reactionary. The last two tindersticks have been so opposed to each other - 2019’s 'No Treasure But Hope’ was an extremely naturalistic recording process - due in part as a reaction to the previous few years of experimental projects (High Life, Minute Bodies) and in turn as a reaction to this purity 2021’s 'Distractions’ became one of the bands most dense, experimental albums. It felt like time to stop lurching to these extremes and to find a way to marry the rigor of the songwriting and the joy of the band playing together with a more hard-nosed experimental approach.” Soft Tissue is the band’s first release of original material following their original soundtrack to Claire Denis’ 2022 film The Stars At Noon, starring Margaret Qualley and Joe Alwyn and released in the US via A24. Since her 1996 feature Nénette and Boni, Denis (High Life, Beau Travail) has worked in some capacity with Stuart Staples of Tindersticks on the distinctive music in her films. No Treasure But Hope and Distractions affirmed the band’s readiness to stretch themselves, to live and breathe inside their music. More recently, two 2023 France shows devoted to their hugely varied 10-film work with Denis upheld the band’s adaptable determination to actively pursue ever-bigger challenges. Says Stuart: “It’s about being more demanding, more ambitious, and then coming out the other end of it feeling as though you’ve achieved something.” On 'Soft Tissue', that ambition takes the form of a fluid, questing take on what Tindersticks can be, anchored by a sense of trust between the bandmates. As Stuart explains, “In this band, I think that there’s so much… I was going to say talent but it’s got nothing to do with talent, really, it’s about that desire, that need to reach for something and to go to places you haven’t been. And I feel that comes from everybody. I didn’t feel as though there was any kind of restriction about, or any dogma about, what this record could be, beyond where it takes us and what excites us.” Soft Tissue tracklist: 1) New World 2) Don't Walk, Run 3) Nancy 4) Falling, The Light 5) Always a Stranger 6) The Secret of Breathing 7) Turned My Back 8) Soon to be April Tour Dates: 09.30 – CZ Prague – Hybernia Theatre 10.02 – AT Vienna – Akzent 10.03 – AT Vienna – Akzent 10.04 – AT Vienna – Akzent 10.05 – DE Munich – Prinzregententheater 10.06 – DE Leipzig – Schauspielhaus 10.07 – DE Berlin – Theater des Westens 10.09 – SE Stockholm – Göta Lejon 10.10 – NO Oslo – Centrum Scene 10.11 – DK Gothenburg – Pustervik 10.12 – DK Copenhagen – Konservatoriets Koncertsal 10.13 – DE Hamburg – Kampnagel 10.15 – NL Eindhoven – Muziekgebouw 10.16 – NL Utrecht – Tivoli 10.17 – BE Brussels – Cirque Royale 10.21 – UK Brighton – Dome 10.23 – UK Manchester – New Century 10.24 – UK Bristol – Beacon 10.25 – UK Birmingham – Town Hall 10.27 – UK Glasgow – Pavillion theatre 10.29 – ISL Reykjavik – Háskólabíó 11.02 – GR Athens – Christmas Theatre 11.04 – ES Madrid – Colliseum 11.06 – ES Barcelona – Palau de la Musica 11.08 – PT Covilhã – Teatro Municipal da Covilhã 11.09 – PT Leiria – Teatro José Lúcio Da Silva 11.10 – PT Aveiro – Teatro Aveirense 11.11 – PT Porto – Casa da Música 11.12 – PT Lisbon – Aula Magna 11.15 – FR Biarritz – L’Atabal 11.16 – FR Toulouse – Halle aux Grains 11.17 – FR Lyon – L’Opera 11.18 – FR Annecy - Bonlieu 11.20 – FR Merignac – Le Pin Galant 11.21 – FR La Rochelle – L’Espace Encan 11.23 – FR Cherbourg – Le Trident 11.26 – FR Rouen – L’Opera 11.27 – FR Nantes – Le Lieu Unique 11.28 – FR Nantes – Le Lieu Unique 11.29 – FR Rennes – Le Théâtre National de Bretagne 11.30 – FR Brest – Quartz 2025 03.07 – DK arhus – Musik Huset 03.09 – DE Dortmund – Konzerthaus 03.10 – BE Antwerp – Queen Elisabeth Hall 03.11 – NL Amsterdam – Le Carré 03.12 – FR Paris – Salle Pleyel 03.14 – UK Glasgow – Pavilion Theatre 03.15 – IRL Dublin – 3Olympia 03.17 – UK London – Royal Albert Hall Keep up with Tindersticks:  Credit: Neil Fraser |
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