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Led by guitarist/vocalist Taylor Kirk, the elements are deceptively simple: a confident, but hushed voice, understated guitar, strings and keyboard flourishes, and a subtle percussive beat.

Features bonus disc of KCRW session, recorded and broadcast live in Los Angeles on  KCRW.COM and 89.9 Morning Becomes Eclectic with Jason Bentley in October 2009

 

Timber Timbre stops you. The elements are deceptively simple: a confident, but hushed voice, understated guitar, strings and keyboard flourishes, and a subtle percussive beat. Timber Timbre, led by guitarist/vocalist Taylor Kirk, is haunted by the history of pop music.

Timber Timbre have gained a devoted following with their spellbinding performances at unusual venues around Toronto and more recently supporting Owen Pallett across Canada and his first ever U.S. tour, and touring as special guests in the US to Low Anthem. Their music has evolved from dusty, low-fi bedroom blues to the sophisticated, cinematic studio work, and the formation of the band as a true three-piece, with Kirk joined by Mika Posen on violin and Simon Trottier on lap steel, autoharp and synth. 

Originally released in Canada in January, Timber Timbre received an international release through Arts & Crafts this past Summer.  In Canada, the album beat out Girls, Dirty Projectors, The xx and Animal Collective, whilst in the U.S. tastemaker radio stations KCRW in Los Angeles and KEXP in Seattle were quick to jump on board. 

Timber Timbre is a stunning record that captures the listener’s attention with what is there as much as what is not.  The sum of the parts, however, is something grounded in a strange place where genre descriptions like blues, country, and folk intersect becoming secondary to the precision of the moods being conjured.