On partage cette excellente nouvelle : le prochain album des indispensables Tindersticks est en vue. Distractions est son libellé. Le premier extrait « You’ll Have To Scream Louder » est une reprise tirée du 4ème album studio (The Painted Word) des Television Personalities.
On savoure d’abord, on s’intéresse au contexte ensuite (ci-dessous) et on finit par l’original :

A word from Stuart on the single :

Late may, early June, 2020 was a twitchy and angry time for many of us. There was a growing agitation inside of me. I woke on a Saturday morning with no plans but just this fucking Television Personalities song going round in my head, it pushed me into the studio.

4 or 5 hours later I had made the basis of this recording, though I had to wait for windows of opportunity within our confinement to work with the band to bring it to a conclusion.

I have loved the TVPs since buying the Bill Grundy e.p. with its photocopied sleeve on one of my regular after school bus trips to the Virgin record shop in a basement on King Street, Nottingham.

Some years later, 1984, I was living around the corner on the 17th floor of Victoria Centre flats, they swayed in the wind. I was working a few days at a local record shop and The Painted Word was released. It became at the soundtrack to that semi-slum, those times. I was 19.

To be young in the early 1980’s there was much to be angry about, battles to be fought – Thatcher, racial and gender injustice – and (one of the motivations for this song) nuclear disarmament. Although we may not have thought those battles were ever won, we believed we had helped push things in a different direction, that changes were made.

In the spring of 2020 we were shown painfully that these battles are ongoing.

Hope you enjoy

Wishing you all the best possible Christmas and some good times in 2021

Stuart