In 2024 & 2025 Tindersticks return with a new album, Soft Tissue, and a string of shows across the UK and Europe.

Known for their richly orchestrated, darkly beautiful music, Tindersticks have carved a niche for themselves since their inception in the early 1990s. Their distinct style, characterized by dense, literary lyrics and melancholic orchestrations, has earned them a dedicated cult following.

Five years after No Treasure but Hope and three years after 2021’s Distractions, Tindersticks return with new album Soft Tissue, released on 13 September 2024.

Musically, Tindersticks’ recent output has been one of strong contrasts – 2019’s No Treasure But Hope was lyrical and naturalistic, in part as a reaction to the previous few years of experimental projects (High Life, Minute Bodies). Then in turn, in response to this, 2021’s Distractions became one of the band's most dense, experimental albums.

As resilient and flexible as its title suggests, Soft Tissue draws new life from the contrasts and convergences of its tight, intuitive songs and restless details, marrying the rigor of song-writing with an experimental approach.

As lead singer Stuart explains, ‘In this band, I think that there’s so much… I was going to say talent, but it’s got nothing to do with talent, really – it’s about that desire, that need to reach for something and to go to places you haven’t been. And I feel that comes from everybody. I didn’t feel as though there was any kind of restriction about, or any dogma about, what this record could be, beyond where it takes us and what excites us.’

Opening for Tindersticks is Irish songwriter and musician Oisín Leech. His debut album Cold Sea has garnered widespread critical acclaim since its release last year including being voted one of the Albums Of The Year at BBC 6 Music, at Mojo and at Uncut. The album was recorded in an old sea-facing schoolhouse in Donegal on the most northerly tip of Ireland over five days in summer.