A significant phase of Tindersticks' career is over. They certainly haven't lost a step with their music, as last year's excellent "Simple Pleasures" proves in spades. When holding the liner notes, well, it doesn't have the feel of a typical Tindersticks release, I mean, what's this: only nine songs! song take numbers!!, this is the band that wouldn't print their own names, but the name of their tailor was there in black and white. Welcome to the Tindersticks glastnost era. If only CF GF, the album's final track and perhaps the finest song of the band's career, didn't sound so elegiac. It sounds like the end, like a goodbye, it's ending rambles on beautifully, proudly overstaying the typical welcome of a 'Sticks song. It recalls the way Suede's "Still Life" said goodbye. In hindsight, we now know that it was the end of Suede:Era 1, not the end of Suede. Hopefully the same applies for the Tindersticks.