Timber Timbre

2009-03-19 : Timber Timbre falls for self-titled disc : London Free Press

By LORI MASTRONARDI, ANNA COUTTS AND BRIAN WONG, SPECIAL TO THE FREE PRESS

Following a couple of lo-fi recordings, Taylor Kirk -- better known as Timber Timbre -- has finally released a proper self-titled disc.

Not that we expected gleaming stereo from the Toronto-based singer-songwriter, whose haunting blues-drenched ditties recall the lush and lonesome musings of Jon Brion's cohorts and the AM-radio reverb of boy-scout-voiced indie poster-boy M. Ward.

But every stark chord and every soulful utterance is spit-polished to shine as much as these dark and rusty-hued gems deserve to, and the results are haunting without being completely unsettling.

Naturally Timber Timbre's solid-as-oak material is paired with something that's as smart and spatial, yet non-impenetrable, when they play Call the Office tomorrow night. Enter headliners Rock Plaza Central.

Less freaky than their nu-folk counterparts -- though literary leader Chris Eaton's goat-like wail begs to differ -- the band is finally set to release the follow-up to their grand 2006 disc Are We Not Horses.


Inspired by William Faulkner's Light in August, the album is a love letter to the pregnant female protagonist who sets on a journey to find the man she thinks loves her. The disc is tentatively due in May.

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