Tindersticks
Claire Denis Film Scores 1996-2009 Box Set
(Constellation Records)

Constellation Records will be releasing on 26 April 2011 a very special 5 CD/5 LP box set compiling all of the soundtracks that members of Tindersticks have created for the films of French director Claire Denis over the past 15 years . 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, including the score for her most recent and hugely acclaimed White Material (which has also received Criterion treatment); all of the film scores recorded since 2002 are issued in this set for the first time.

The CD and LP sets each come in a slipcase box made from deluxe uncoated black paperboard with a custom die-cut window and metallic cover-print. Discs are housed in printed sleeves, each of which features an iconic image from the corresponding film that can interact with the window-cut box. Also included is a 48 page perfect-bound booklet of color film stills and an essay (in English and in French translation) by renowned music writer Michael Hill (who has also contributed liner notes for collections by Lou Reed, Sam Cooke, The Replacements and others).

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 full-lengths 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 soundtracks represent a subtle, beautiful body of work and an essential part of the Tindersticks oeuvre.

Full list of soundtracks and running times are below:

White Material (2009) - 16 tracks, 37:57
35 Rhums (2008) - 12 tracks, 25:40
L'intrust (2004) - by Stuart A. Staples -10 tracks, 22:58
Vendredi Soir (2002) – by Dickon Hinchliffe - 12 tracks, 23:40
Trouble Every Day (2001) - 14 tracks, 41:11


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