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Timber Timbre

Timber Timbre

Timber Timbre

Folk, blues and country pop on the debut from the Canadian band led by singer-songwriter Taylor Kirk

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6.0

Label
Arts & Crafts
UK Release date
17/08/2009
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  1. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  2. 7.0 |   The Observer

    There are times when he lays on the gothic country a bit thick but these are outnumbered by moments of black humour and spectral beauty
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  3. 7.0 |   AU Review

    There’s a sense that Timber Timbre still need some fine-tuning and minor renovations – a current of electricity here, maybe some insulation there – but try making an album like this in your garden shed
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  4. 6.0 |   State

    Dark and musty, it’s an atmospheric album but it stays a little tight within the simple parameters Kirk has set himself and this makes it a bit claustrophobic
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  5. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  6. 6.0 |   Q

    A delirious set of spooky low-fidelity blues songs. Print edition only

  7. 5.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    It can’t be said that Timber Timbre pulls the music of the past into the present
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  8. 4.0 |   PopMatters

    When I got to the end first, I couldn’t recall a single song on Timber Timbre, or a single lyric
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