Can Our Love...

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Can Our Love...
Tindersticks-CanOurLove.jpg
Studio album by
Released21 May 2001
Genre Chamber pop, alternative pop
Length45:41
Label Beggars Banquet
Producer Tindersticks with Ian Caple
Tindersticks chronology
Simple Pleasure
(1999)
Can Our Love...
(2001)
Trouble Every Day
(2001)

Can Our Love... is the fifth studio album by British band Tindersticks, released in May 2001 on the Beggars Banquet record label.

Contents

Reception

Commercial performance

Can Our Love... entered the UK Albums Chart during the week ending 2 June 2001 and peaked at number 47. [1]

Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Billboard (favourable) [3]
NME 7/10 [4]
Pitchfork Media 8.1/10 [5]
The Village Voice (neutral) [6]

The album received a generally favourable response from music critics, scoring 81 points out of a possible 100 on the music review aggregator website Metacritic, based on 19 reviews. [7]

Track listing

  1. "Dying Slowly" – 4:36
  2. "People Keep Comin' Around" – 7:11
  3. "Tricklin'" – 2:15
  4. "Can Our Love..." – 5:57
  5. "Sweet Release" – 8:55
  6. "Don't Ever Get Tired" – 3:07
  7. "No Man in the World" – 6:06
  8. "Chilitetime" – 7:34

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