The Waiting Room (studio album) by Tindersticks

The Waiting Room by Tindersticks
Year: 2016
Release date: 2016-01-22
Overall rank: 11,180th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
69/100 (from 79 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2016 (213th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (2,317th)
Award Best albums of all time (11,180th)

Tindersticks bestography

The Waiting Room is ranked 5th best out of 20 albums by Tindersticks on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Tindersticks is The First Tindersticks Album which is ranked number 1568 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,100.

Tindersticks album bestography « Higher ranked (7,479th) This album (11,180th) Lower ranked (12,728th) »
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The Waiting Room track list

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The Waiting Room ratings

Average Rating: 
69/100 (from 79 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.0/100, a mean average of 67.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.

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From 01/10/2017 00:54
Not bad. Nothing outstanding either.
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From 02/11/2016 17:38
It's kind of a bore.
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From 01/30/2016 03:22
The last two songs save this from being a boring mess.

Best track: We Are Dreamers!

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From 01/28/2016 20:28
They've been doing "The National sound" since before The National was a band. Just a bit more of a focus on the chamber pop elements than the post-punk revival elements as compared to early National.

Anyhow, this album is pretty different from their early stuff in that it's just far more lush, and I can see why some would prefer the more intimate feeling on their debut, but for me this is absolutely incredible.
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From 01/27/2016 17:03
One of those albums you know is good, but didn't quite listen to in the right setting or time. Very artistic and melodic in some senses, but other times it falls flat, losing my interest. Reminds me of Swans' album "The Seer". Worth listening to once . . . and only once.

Favorite Tracks: How He Entered, Follow Me and Like Only Lovers Can.
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From 01/25/2016 14:46
I'm not a really familiar with the previous stuff released by Tindersticks. However, this album is fair to good and some songs are unfortunately a bad attempt to reproduce The National sound.

In addition, some ''melodic'' song are awkwardly offbeat.

Fear Of Emptiness is the only great song of this album.
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