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Artist
  
Tindersticks

Label
  
4AD

Release date
  
2010

Genre
  
Baroque pop

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Released
  
25 January 2010 (UK & Europe) 16 February 2010 (US)

Recorded
  
Le Chien Chanceaux, France and ICP Studios, Brussels May–July 2009

Falling Down a Mountain (2010)
  
The Something Rain (2012)

Similar
  
Tindersticks albums, Other albums

Falling Down a Mountain is the eighth studio album by English rock band Tindersticks, released in 2010 on 4AD/Constellation Records. Although the album failed to chart in their homeland, it still became a commercial success in Greece, by charting at No. 2 spending 5 weeks on the international artist charts.

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Reception

The album was released to generally positive reviews. Drowned in Sound felt that Tindersticks have "created a record that certainly rivals, if not betters any of its three predecessors from the past decade". Pitchfork Media summed up the record by saying "it leaves a very hazy, almost spectral impression when it ends. But it's also warm and in some ways comforting, and it improves the more you listen to it and tease out the details in the songs." BBC Music described the album as "the sound of a band rediscovering themselves" and Uncut had a similar view, saying Tindersticks sounded like "a band with restored self-belief, again loving doing what they do better than anyone else". Allmusic said "Falling Down a Mountain isn't exactly a major reinvention, but it does back up the golden-hued sky gracing its cover with some of their most upbeat and optimistic songs to date". NME was more measured, describing the album as "a dislocated creature" but "the moments of oddness whetted our palette for more." PopMatters was equally unimpressed, calling it "the sound of Tindersticks going through the motions".

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Stuart Staples except where indicated.

  1. "Falling Down A Mountain" – 6:33
  2. "Keep You Beautiful" – 3:23
  3. "Harmony Around My Table" – 5:06
  4. "Peanuts" (with Mary Margaret O'Hara) – 4:37
  5. "She Rode Me Down" – 3:18
  6. "Hubbards Hills" (Dan McKinna) – 3:04
  7. "Black Smoke" – 3:43
  8. "No Place So Alone" – 3:12
  9. "Factory Girls" – 5:55
  10. "Piano Music" – 5:46

Personnel

  • Stuart Staples – lead vocals, acoustic guitar
  • David Boulter – keyboards, percussion
  • Neil Fraser – guitar
  • Dan McKinna – bass, vocals
  • Terry Edwards – trumpet
  • Earl Harvin – drums
  • David Kitt – guitar, vocals

    • Songs

    1Falling Down a Mountain6:33
    2Keep You Beautiful3:23
    3Harmony Around My Table5:06

    References

    Falling Down a Mountain Wikipedia
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