Can Our Love...

Can Our Love... Artist: Tindersticks
Label: Beggars UK - Ada
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 607618022228
EAN: 0607618022228
ASIN: B00005B9MK


Release Date: 2001-05-18

Can Our Love...


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Tracks:

  1. Dying Slowly
  2. People Keep Comin' Around
  3. Tricklin'
  4. Can Our Love...
  5. Sweet Release
  6. Don't Ever Get Tired
  7. No Man in the World
  8. Chilitetime

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Amazon.com

When sizing up the appeal of <I>Can Our Love...</I>, the fifth album from the decade-old Tindersticks, the number of their records you may already own is largely irrelevant. The unswerving continuity of their work--chiefly remarkable for single-digit BPMs, a bone-dry sense of humor, and a luxuriant air of romantic desolation--suggests that each Tindersticks album is merely a small corner of a canvas the size of, well, life and love and loss. And on this album, once again we get what we came to swoon for: the dusty Hazlewood-esque intro prefacing Stuart Staples's forlorn, chocolaty mumbles ("dying slowly seems better than shooting myself") on "Don't Ever Get Tired," the interwoven vocal lines of "Chilitetime," and the intimate, Cohen-like voiceover of "No Man in the World." And we also get the suspicion, on hearing the Hammond-shivering, Bobby Womack-drifting-through-molasses seduction of "People Keep Comin' Around" and "Sweet Release," that if the Tindersticks have shifted position at all in the last 10 years, they have begun a slow, elegant sidle toward the spot marked "England's greatest soul band." <I>--Jennifer Nine</I>

Album Details

Their fifth studio album.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Going Motown.......2005-06-22

Over the past several years, I have become a huge fan of Tindersticks. Not only have I gradually acquired all of their music that is known to me, but I have seriously and intently listened many times to every one of their CDs. My journey to fanhood began with Can Our Love... based on an amazon recommendation I got after reviewing Total Lee!, a Lee Hazlewood tribute CD on which Stuart Staples contributes his distinctive voice to one of the songs.
Now that I've heard and digested it all, it turns out that Can Our Love... was not a particularly apt recommendation for a Tindersticks neophyte. Don't get me wrong, its OK, but it is my least favorite of all Tindersticks output. For one thing, there is a bit too much disco flavor for my taste even though one of the two best songs on the CD is the epitome of disco. Another reason is that although I like music to have soul, there is a feeling of too much "going Motown" in the music. The final reason is that it is far shorter than other Tindersticks CDs.
What did I like? The opening cut is fairly decent as is the title cut, but the songs that carry this CD are the entrancing disco piece People Keep Comin' Around and the very intense, violin-driven song that closes the CD, Chilitetime. And as always, Stuart Staples' voice is mesmerizing.
If you are new to the music of Tindersticks, I would recommend that you start with one of the first three CDs in place of Can Our Love... unless disco and soul are your first musical loves.
Any of those are much better at showcasing the diversity of Tindersticks' talent. Once you know those CDs inside and out, then would be time to savor the rest of their music one CD at a time.

1 out of 5 stars Do You Ever Get The Impression...........2004-03-20

.... that some reviewers gush about a particular artist or band simply because their previous works were so good that this one must be too? As if it would be sheer sacrilege to question anything they put out because the reviewer could not bear to admit to themselves that their most-revered band could churn out something C grade?

Well folks, compared to "Curtains" or "II" this is lame, boring. Yes, I tried to find something to like about it but in the end there is nothing! and it found it's way into the 2nd hand section of a Sydney Record store. Its probably worth 2 stars but as always on these reviews, the ratings are too heavily weighted by "pro" voices, so I offer a one star in the interest of balance :)

5 out of 5 stars How many times have I listened to this album . . ........2003-11-06

This album was a revelation. I'd heard some of their older stuff, and found the CD surprisingly cheap; I don't think it was selling very well. After listening to it a few times, I thought a bunch of the songs were good. But for some reason, I kept playing it again and again, and the songs just kept getting better and better. And I never got tired of it. Every time I'm driving at night - especially if I have a long time to go on the highway - I put this in and can slip into it for an hour. It's sort of a darker, slower brother to Exile on Main Street, which is another album I've never gotten tired of, and always stays in the car for when I'm driving and it's a sunny day.

What both albums have in common is a groove. Maybe a better comparison is In a Silent Way, the Miles Davis album, which shares the atmosphere of Can Our Love and has the same driving pulse. Both bands also have the same talent of developing a simple chord progression and winding melodies in and out of it - with voices, strings, or horns - so that a song that's essentially just the same repeated pattern always seems headed somewhere, and arrives. And they both have SOUL.

For those of you ask, won't soul music change, now that our souls have turned strange? - the answer is yes. The lyrics aren't about the usual kind of heartbreak, but about a more modern kind of sickness: the inability to communicate, to connect, even when you want to; overcoming hardness and the desire to be free of people instead of being tied to them.

Many people use the word 'romantic despair' to describe the Tindersticks, and this is actually my least favorite aspect of their music, because too often - especially on the earlier records - it seemed like something of a fashionable pose. My two least favorite songs on the record - Dying Slowly and No Man in the World - both suffer from a hint of this self-indulgent melancholy. The chorus of Dying Slowly - "this dying slowly, seemed better than shooting myself" - is by far the worst line on the album, because it doesn't ring true, and the portentous spoken word narration on No Man in the World is only just redeemed by the beautiful chorus and orchestration of the rest of the song.

But the rest of the album is just fantastic. Every song is a masterpiece, and there isn't a word that seems fake, or a false step in the singing or arrangements. Simple Pleasure got much better reviews, for some reason, but I think there are more strong songs on this album, and the female chorus on Simple Pleasure didn't fit as well with Staples's voice as the dueling male voices on this album. They felt like an intrusion, because this is above all a band: this album doesn't sound like each of the tracks was laid down separately - it feels like a great jazz band, going into the studio and playing together, with each musician playing off the ideas of the others.

5 out of 5 stars Wonderful and Melancholy.......2003-09-30

I love this album. From the very funny cover photo to the groove of 'people keep coming around'. It's surprisingly upbeat but still has those moments where Stuart Staples sounds close to tears. His singing is top notch here. So much emotion and still the words are forced out as if every syllable is a heart wrenching struggle.

It develops the bare bones sound of 'Simple Pleasures' one step further adding more polish. If the likes of 'Curtains' sounded like a glorious band reaching the end of their ideas. This album sounds like they have decades of life left in them.

Marvellous stuff.

4 out of 5 stars Strange Pleasure.......2001-12-25

I can't deny I was anxious to hear Tindersicks' "Can Our Love...", mostly because I was aware the band was trying to innovate their own sound. The first song I heard was "People Keep Comin' Around" from a download from Beggars Banquet official site, and I was a little disappointed, but I couldn't say exactly why. Perhaps it was because Staples' voice didn't struck me like before or perhaps I was so much accostumed with their beautiful older records that I kept wondering why did the band decide to venture into something completely different. I was wrong about many things. Luckily I bought "Can Our Love..." before I even read its reviews, or else I would still be considering purchasing the album.
The first track, "Dying Slowly", is almost pure Tindersticks in the sense I was accostumed to their music. But Staples' voice is slightly different here: it's a bit more mature, perhaps more disillusioned, self-centered and sadder as he sings: "I've seen it all and it's all done; I've been with everyone and no one". But don't expect the sweet melodies you've heard before. There's something more violent and urgent, a strange feeling of emptiness never experienced before in Tindersticks' music.

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  3. The Whole Shebang ~ Fluid Ounces
  4. A Rock 'N' Roll Night at the Royal Court Theatre ~ Alan Price
  5. From the Archives, Vol. 1 ~ Wishbone Ash
  6. With Strings Attached ~ Shadows
  7. BBC Radio 1 Live ~ Steve Hillage
  8. Stop Thinking ~ Clam Abuse
  9. Bloque ~ Bloque
  10. Walking the Skyline ~ Wendy Woo

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