Tindersticks

Dog Roses Tindersticks Bio Red Vinyl edition

With their new album Dog Roses, Tindersticks take another big step in their musical evolution. Its predecessor, 2024's Soft Tissue, opened the door to a new musical landscape, and Dog Roses is another significant leap into the unknown. After 15 albums, the British band still has the desire and courage to challenge their own sound and explore new creative possibilities.

The album was created under completely new circumstances. After 20 years in their familiar studio, an atmospheric and almost church-like space, Tindersticks have swapped their surroundings for a more hidden, underground studio. The move became a creative turning point where old working methods no longer functioned as expected, and the band had to find new approaches to both songwriting and recording. This has resulted in an album characterized by renewed confidence, experimentation, and a different kind of musical freedom.

For frontman Stuart Staples, working on Dog Roses has also been a challenge to his usual way of writing songs. While his lyrics have often had a clear sense of time and place, the new songs revolve more around fleeting impressions, intuitive feelings, and the many thoughts and conflicting emotions that can arise in a single moment. It is music that attempts to capture something intangible – a scent, a knot in the stomach, or a brief glimpse of one's own reflection.