Tindersticks

Tindersticks are one of the most original and distinctive acts to come out of the U.K. music scene of the '90s, standing apart from both the British indie scene and the rash of Brit-pop guitar combos that dominated the U.K. charts. Since then, Tindersticks have continued to craft obtuse and leisurely, crafting dense, difficult songs layered with literary lyrics, intertwining melodies, mumbling vocals, and gently melancholy orchestrations. Essentially, the group filtered the dark romanticism of vocalists like Leonard Cohen and Scott Walker through the off-kilter pop songcraft o...