Tindersticks - marbles, 1993

"another great song with the charmingly lilting guitars of 'Patchwork'. The truly stupendous, stop dead in your tracks sound of 'Marbles'. An organ figure repeats through the song. A different and utterly captivating guitar figure repeats through the song. Stuart tells a poetic, beautiful story, half singing-half speaking. It's lo-fi, and utterly suited to being so. 'You knew you'd lost as soon as you saw her, you saw your life as a series of complicated dance steps.....' and then? A gorgeous move upwards from Stuart, soft and tender. Like a lover cooing and blowing softly in your ear."