Tindersticks 'We Have All The Time In The World' (Clawfist Singles Club, 1993)

Tindersticks have veered between austere, filmic beauty and seedy, lovelorn balladry across a career that now spans almost twenty years.

'We Have All The Time In The World' is one side of a Clawfist Singles Club seven-inch (Gallon Drunk's Terry Edwards had the other side) and it manages to embody both facets of the band in one track. Graced with sweeping strings, it features one of Stuart Staples' less - how can I say this politely - in-tune vocal performances. He isn't all over the shop and it isn't unpleasant to listen to. Indeed, it somehow it suits the performance of the song, adding a lovelorn, broken edge that suits the reality of how the song appears in the James Bond film it's from.

As the song ends, Tindersticks' own take on the James Bond theme kicks in.

Download Tindersticks 'We Have All The Time In The World' (mp3, Mediafire)

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