Can Our Love
When sizing up the appeal ofCan Our Love..., the fifth album from  the decade-old Tindersticks, the number of their records you may already own is largely  irrelevant. The unswerving continuity of their work--chiefly remarkable for single-digit  BPMs, a bone-dry sense of humor, and a luxuriant air of romantic desolation--suggests that  each Tindersticks album is merely a small corner of a canvas the size of, well, life and love  and loss. And on this album, once again we get what we came to swoon for: the dustyHazlewood-esque intro prefacing Stuart  Staples's forlorn, chocolaty mumbles ("dying slowly seems better than shooting myself") on  "Don't Ever Get Tired," the interwoven vocal lines of "Chilitetime," and the intimate,Cohen-like voiceover of "No Man in the  World." And we also get the suspicion, on hearing the Hammond-shivering,Bobby Womack-drifting-through-molasses  seduction of "People Keep Comin' Around" and "Sweet Release," that if the Tindersticks have  shifted position at all in the last 10 years, they have begun a slow, elegant sidle toward the  spot marked "England's greatest soul band."--Jennifer Nine