Tindersticks Release Official Video for New Song “Always a Stranger” From 'Soft Tissue' out 9/13 via City Slang

Tindersticks Release Official Video for New Song “Always a Stranger” From Soft Tissue out September 13 via City Slang Extensive European Tour Making Stops in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Glasgow, Dublin & More

Credit: Julien Bourgeois “Stuart Staples’ crew at their best: tentative hip-shakers and (dark night of the) soul serenades, heavily freighted with exquisite sadness.” – Uncut  “Striking and soulful... Each song a precisely measured dose of beauty and unease... From Terry Edwards’ dysregulated trumpet on ‘Always a Stranger’ to the wheezy strings of ‘The Secret of Breathing,’ Soft Tissue is a magnificent reminder that few people know better how to arrange life’s broken pieces, how to orchestrate the chaos.” –- MOJO (4 stars)

August 21, 2024: Today, UK-based, “sophisticated indie vets” (BrooklyVegan) Tindersticks released the official video for their new song “Always A Stranger” from their forthcoming album Soft Tissue that will be released on September 13 via City Slang. Directed by Tindersticks frontman Stuart Staples and shot by guitarist Neil Fraser, the official video captures the driving energy of the hypnotic track that culminates in Staples’ poetic refrain: “Oh life, breathe through me, As this light falls, My love is in flames and I’m always a stranger.” 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.

Watch the official video for “Always A Stranger.”

About the new single, Staples explains: “Some of the songs I write, I understand their reference points. For 'New World’ and 'Don’t Walk, Run,' I probably understood their reference points. But some songs I don’t understand where they come from at all - They just kind of happen. 'Always a Stranger' is one of those songs, it holds a kind of mystery to me at the very centre of it.” This morning, Magnet Magazine published a Q&A with Staples about the new album and video. “Always a Stranger" follows the recent releases “Nancy” and “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 single was praised by Stereogum, Under The Radar, and BrooklynVegan, who named the album one of the most anticipated albums of the summer, proclaiming, “‘New World’ opens with blasts of horns, and you might think you put on a Charles Bradley record by mistake, but then in comes Staples’ voice and you know where you are. It’s such a natural fit, especially in the chorus with its killer backing vocals, that you wonder why Tindersticks never went there before.” “Falling, The Light,” which was released on Valentine’s Day, was praised by KCRW in Los Angeles, who said “Some 30 years and soon-to-be 14 albums into their sonic journey, UK-based Tindersticks have a new collection of songs, Soft Tissue, set to drop in September. Their signature brooding melodies are still on track, as you hear on ‘Falling, The Light.’” 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. About Soft Tissue, Staples adds: “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.” “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

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