March, 2012

Four new release albums reviewed. How do new offerings from Bruce Springsteen, The Shins, The Wedding Present and Deep Sea Arcade all fare? Hear a compilation of songs from these albums on a Crikey earworm playlist via the RDIO music streaming service here.

Tindersticks: The Something Rain [Lucky Dog] Some bands arrive fully formed. Their debut albums are such a perfect distillation of their aesthetic they quickly suffer the curse of diminishing returns on subsequent releases. Such is Tindersticks’ fate. The Nottingham troubadours’ 1993 first set, Tindersticks (aka Tindersticks I), so beautifully captured their late-night smokey tales of [...]