Countless record releases down the line and the world hasn’t got any better, which ensures these Brit miserablists are on familiar ground.
Lead track ‘Trying To Find A Home’ is the most beautiful chunk of rousing despondency in a long, long while – if Louis Armstrong had covered John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ in the style of a tearful homeless man it might have gone something like this.
Contrastingly, the two-minute instrumental interlude of ‘Sexual Funk’ is anything but arousing, perhaps more likely to pop up on a Phoenix Nights outtake or a long-abandoned Blackpool Pleasure Beach attraction. No matter – ‘Everything Changes’ and ‘I Want You’ are more of Tindersticks’ patented brand of inspiring sadness.
Just as a fine wine improves with age, Tindersticks continue to better themselves and it’s about time they were uncorked to the wider world.