Six years after their last studio album, Taylor Kirk’s Canadian band Timber Timbre has finally announced a new record Lovage - their most accomplished and engrossing album to date, set for release October 6th. Since releasing and extensively touring “Sincerely, Future Pollution” (2017), Taylor Kirk has been busy working as a producer on several full-length LP’s, including Joseph Martone’s “Honeybirds” and the sophomore recording “Nightshades” by This Lonesome Paradise. Timber Timbre have quietly released two cassette-only EP’s, “I Am Coming To Paris” and “The Dissociation Tapes Volume 1”. Finally returning with a new full-length entitled Lovage, the most accomplished and engrossing Timber Timbre album to date. Kirk manages to combine disparate influences that would otherwise seem mutually incompatible. Together with producer-engineer Michael Dubue, he reconciles Brian Wilson's rich sonic palette with the amused melancholy of Leonard Cohen. When asked about these influences Taylor admits these are certainly touchstones. ”Brian Wilson and Leonard Cohen are among many influences that have come to embody what music is to me.” Kirk admits to revisiting Sun Ra, Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane, as well as Italian singers such as Pino Daniele and Paolo Conte, which might explain the cinematic lightness of the new album. When asked about The Velvet Underground he replied reluctantly “I wouldn't say that I sound like Lou Reed,” Kirk explains. “But I also aspire to the leanness that he brings to his lyrics and storytelling.”Kirk returned to his native Ontario in 2019 after spending a few years in Quebec and Texas. He made it back just in time to sit out the Covid pandemic and regroup. “I moved back to Ontario where I had grown up, a place I left 20 years ago and swore I’d never return to. ‘Holy Motors’ is an homage to this place I love and hate - but also love to hate," he says of the town where he spent the lockdown. "But it's a good place to be trapped."One could say the same of the sonic landscapes he evokes on Lovage: “It's a wonderful album to be trapped on, a modern masterpiece for troubled times one will find oneself returning to again and again." Released: October 2023Cat: HD-01-VLabel: Hot Dreams Publishing Inc Listen Tracklist 1. Ask The Community2. Mystery Street3. Stops4. Confessions of Dr. Woo5. 800 Pristine Corpses6. Sugar Land7. Holy Motors8. Lovage
