What a beautifully bleak, baroque piece of pop-music.  You don’t hear too much of the Tindersticks‘ soul-inflected sound on this album,  What you get, instead, is music that pulls from folk, goth (yes, if you can believe it), and even hints of work from Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.  The orchestration is deep, Stuart A. Staples‘ voice is filled with pathos, and as heartbreaking as the songs feel, it makes for a glorious listen.