I never learnt to drive a car. I tried once, but it didn’t go. Later it turned out that the mistakes were not entirely mine, because my old Lada Special was not quite OK. But that experience was quite good for me to cross out the driving licence. And I have not wish to drive. Except when I hear Tindersticks.
There is something in their rolling sound, something that used to have even before they were Tindersticks, while they were called Asphalt Ribbons. I don’t only think of Stuart Staples’s voice. It’s something else, the complete magic that they had created, especially on their early albums.
For example, one song from ‘Simple Pleasure’ album always makes me grab the wheel that is not there. Since I first heard Before You Close YourEyes it makes me feel the same again: I want to sit in the first car and drive, drive, drive. To the distance, to the twilight, not coming back, to what awaits for us after the dreams. And I go there with the first sounds of this song.