Name: Distractions
Brand: Tindersticks

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SLANG50349X

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Colour

blue

Colour details

Dark Blue

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Discogs ID

[r17442976]

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Discs

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-04-09

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

4250506838485

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / blue

SLANG50349

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Download code: No

Extended format: No

2021-02-19

4250506838409

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

SLANG50349LP

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black

[r17490313]

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4250506838416

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Tindersticks

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

City Slang

Albums of the Year 2021

Just before the end of the year 2020, a mere 12 months, after the release of their celebrated record No Treasure But Hope, Tindersticks surprised everyone with mentioning a new album to be released in 2021.

Stuart Staples was already nurturing seeds for a different kind of Tindersticks album before lockdown halted their tour in early 2020, singer. If 2019’s No Treasure but Hope saw the band rediscovering themselves as a unit, the follow-up reconfigures that unit so that everything familiar about Tindersticks sounds fresh again. Distractions is an album of subtle realignments and connections from a restless, intuitive band: rich in texture and atmosphere, it lives between its open spaces and details, always finding new ways to connect with a song.

If it’s an album that resists easy summation, at least one thing is clear: though it isn’t untouched by the lockdown, Distractions is not ‘a lockdown album’. As Staples says, “I think the confinement provided an opportunity for something that was already happening. It is definitely a part of the album, but not a reaction to it.”