Tindersticks

Loving,
leaving

The opening track and first single of Dog Roses, Tindersticks’ fifteenth studio album, out on City Slang on March 12, 2027. After two decades in the same studio – a church, as Stuart Staples puts it – the band went down into a hidden basement room, where the old ways of making a record stopped working; he says the songs felt less like places and times than like chasing a fragrance, a knot in the stomach, a glimpse of himself in a mirror. The title nods to his 2006 solo album Leaving Songs.

Tindersticks: Stuart A. Staples, David Boulter, Neil Fraser, Earl Harvin, Dan McKinna; with Dave Okumu (electric guitar), Julian Siegel (saxophone) and Lucy Wilkins (strings). Written, composed and produced by Stuart A. Staples; recorded December 2025 – August 2026. Cover art by Sidonie Osborne Staples. From Dog Roses, City Slang / Lucky Dog, March 12, 2027 – track one of eight, the title track closes it. Sources: Hot Press, Dork, Crazyminds. Photograph: a wild dog rose (Rosa canina) near Zwarte Kiezel, De Haan, Belgium, August 26, 2007, by Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0. Wikimedia Commons. This tinted crop is shared under the same licence.