CD: Tindersticks: Claire Denis Film Scores 1996-2009 [Box set] (2011)

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Tindersticks have had a long and fruitful relationship with French filmmaker Claire Denis dating
back to the band's early years. The group's first soundtrack for Denis, Nenette Et Boni (1996),
was also their third album, following two eponymous and now legendary Tindersticks fulllengths
in the early 90s. Five more soundtracks have been created since, standing faithfully alongside
Denis' own critically-acclaimed trajectory and marking one of the more fertile, consistent and
resonant relationships
between a director and a group of musicians in contemporary cinema. The set gathers all six of
the Claire Denis soundtracks written and performed by Tindersticks or their members; Stuart A.
Staples (for L'Intrus) and Dickon Hinchliffe (for Vendredi Soir) alongside four others credited to
the full band. Four of the six soundtracks are previously unreleased – all of the film scores recorded
since 2002 are issued in this set for the first time. The soundtracks represent a subtle,
beautiful body of work and an essential part of the Tindersticks oeuvre.
Says band leader Stuart A. Staples:
Approaching each film has always asked us to step into an unknown, stretch ourselves and do
things that we did not think we were able. At the end we always feel changed in some way. This
has fed into all our other music and is a contributing factor to why we are still struggling to catch
our ideas after all these years...