Simple Pleasures 10/06/2017 produced by Ant)

produced by Ant)

Sermon isn't up to his usual standards here

revitalizing rock and roll at one of its lowest ebbs with attitude

B2        Kozmic Blues

the ebullient "Higher Than the Sun" and the anthemic "Won't Be Broken

Simple Pleasures 10/06/2017 produced by Ant)With a title like Simple Pleasure and songs like the disarmingly up tempo opener "Can We Start Again?," at first listen Tindersticks' fourth proper album seems buoyed by a guarded optimism totally absent from previous outings; dig deeper, however, and it's all a come on frontman Stuart Staples still inhabits a netherworld where nothing is ever simple, pleasure is an illusion, and starting again merely means making the same mistakes yet one more time.