Timber Timbre#Albums

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| name = Timber Timbre

| background = group_or_band

| image = File:Timber Timbre 2011.jpg

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| caption = Timber Timbre performing in San Diego, California in 2011

| alias =

| origin = Toronto, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec, Canada

| genre =

| years_active = {{Start date|2005}}–present

| label = Arts & Crafts, Out of This Spark, Full Time Hobby, City Slang

| associated_acts = Last Ex

| website = {{URL|https://timbertimbre.ca/}}

| current_members = {{ubl|Taylor Kirk}}

| past_members = Mika Posen

}}

Timber Timbre is a Canadian band featuring Taylor Kirk. The moniker refers to an early series of recordings made in a timber-framed cabin set in the wooded outskirts of Bobcaygeon, Ontario.

History

File:Timber Timbre at the Scoot Inn.jpg, California in 2010]]

Timber Timbre released two albums independently before releasing their self-titled album on Out of This Spark in January 2009. They were subsequently signed to Arts & Crafts, who re-released the album on June 30 in Canada and July 28 internationally.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chartattack.com/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514055947/http://www.chartattack.com/news/69599/timber-timbre-signs-to-arts-crafts |url-status=usurped |title=Chart Attack - Best Magazine 2021|archive-date=May 14, 2009|website=Chart Attack}} The album was named as a longlist nominee for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize on June 15, 2009,[https://web.archive.org/web/20090709211446/http://radio3.cbc.ca/blogs/2009/06/Polaris%2DMusic%2DPrize%2DAnnounces%2DTop%2D40%2DLong%2DList "CBC Radio3 Announces Polaris Prize Longlist"]. CBC Radio 3, June 15, 2009 and was deemed album of the year by Eye Weekly.[http://www.eyeweekly.com/diversions/thisissue] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081117021459/http://www.eyeweekly.com/diversions/thisissue|date=November 17, 2008}}

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The band's song "Magic Arrow" was featured in the television show Breaking Bad, in the episode "Caballo Sin Nombre", as well as in the TV series The Good Wife, in the episode "Bitcoin for Dummies". "Black Water" features on the soundtrack for the 2012 comedy, For a Good Time, Call...,[http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/soundtrack-for-for-a-good-time-call-features-los-campesinos-operator-please-generationals-more-20120803] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012235856/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/soundtrack-for-for-a-good-time-call-features-los-campesinos-operator-please-generationals-more-20120803|date=October 12, 2012}} as well Bottom of the World (2017) and in the TV series Russian Doll (2019). Their song "Demon Host" was featured in the end credits to the 2013 film The Last Exorcism Part II, in Sarah Polley's documentary Stories We Tell (2012), and in the movie The Gambler (2014).

File:Timber Timbre performing in 2009.jpg

The band's fourth album, Creep on Creepin' On, was released in April 2011. It was named as one of ten shortlisted nominees for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize that ultimately went to Arcade Fire's The Suburbs. In 2012, the band supported British folk singer Laura Marling on her UK tour and Canadian singer Feist on her tour of America.

The band's fifth record, Hot Dreams, was released April 1, 2014. It was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize,[http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/arcade-fire-drake-shad-make-polaris-music-prize-short-list-1.1914616 "Arcade Fire, Drake, Shad make Polaris Music Prize short list"]. CTV News, July 15, 2014. which eventually went to Tanya Tagaq's Animism.[http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/polaris-music-prize-2014-tanya-tagaq-wins-30k-prize-1.2774822 "Polaris Music Prize 2014: Tanya Tagaq wins $30K prize"]. CBC News, September 22, 2014. The song "Run From Me" is featured in the Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country, in the sixth season of Orange Is the New Black, in the second season episode of The Blacklist titled "The Mombasa Cartel", in an episode from the second season of Good Girls called "The Dubby", and in the trailer for HBO's Barry Season 4. The track "Run From Me" was also featured in season 2, episode 2 of period romantic comedy Our Flag Means Death.{{cite web |title=Our Flag Means Death Becomes the Rom-Com It Was Always Meant to Be in Glorious Second Season |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/hbo-max/our-flag-means-death-season-2-review |website=Paste Magazine}}

Timber Timbre's sixth album, Sincerely, Future Pollution, was released on April 7, 2017, on City Slang Records. The album's first single, "Sewer Blues", was released in January 2017.Robin Hilton, [https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/01/17/509712833/timber-timbres-sewer-blues-is-a-grim-take-on-americas-future "Timber Timbre's 'Sewer Blues' Is A Grim Take On America's Future,"] NPR, January 17, 2017. The second single, "Velvet Gloves & Spit", was released on February 15, 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-effortlessly-all-consuming-timber-timbre-share-video-for-single-velvet-gloves-spit/|title=The effortlessly all-consuming Timber Timbre share video for single 'Velvet Gloves & Spit' {{!}} Far Out Magazine|website=faroutmagazine.co.uk|date=15 February 2017 |access-date=2017-04-24}}

In 2021, Timber Timbre digitally released an EP titled Dissociation Tapes, Volume 1 previously available on cassette in 2019.

Timber Timbre's seventh album, Lovage, was released on October 6, 2023, on Integral Music. The album's first single, "Ask the Community", was released in June 2023.{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/timbertimbre/posts/pfbid032izMiYxxuDYdNDKKz3BBSkhEE1WKLymjQpEyPhXEuo5aLkEJmZfqPu1Vp5ZvMV2Ml|title=Lovage,' the new studio album from Timber Timbre will be released October 6th 2023 on Integral Music.|date=June 22, 2023|publisher=Facebook|access-date=June 23, 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/timbertimbre/videos/ask-the-community-from-timber-timbre-is-out-now-music-video-directed-by-bastien-/976803950438996/|title=Ask The Community' from Timber Timbre is out now. Music video directed by Bastien Duverdier.|date=June 22, 2023|publisher=Facebook|access-date=June 23, 2023}}{{third-party inline|date=June 2023}}

Sound

Timber Timbre'sKhanna, Vish. [https://archive.today/20120707223949/http://exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?csid1=129&csid2=4&fid1=35907 "Timber Timbre's Time Travel"], Exclaim!, February 2009. sound has been described as "an aesthetic rooted in swampy, ragged blues" and "beautifully restrained blues from an alternate universe", which creates an atmosphere that is cinematic and spooky.[http://www.ffwdweekly.com/article/music/cd-reviews/timber-timbre-st-4075/ "Record Reviews: Timber Timbre, S/T"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090713045508/http://www.ffwdweekly.com/article/music/cd-reviews/timber-timbre-st-4075/ |date=2009-07-13 }} FFWD Weekly, July 9, 2009.

Members

=Current=

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Taylor Kirk – vocals, electric guitar, bass guitar, baritone guitar, drums, keyboards
Simon Trottier – guitar, bass guitar, keyboards
Mathieu Charbonneau – keyboards
Olivier Fairfield – drums, keyboards

Discography

=Albums=

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rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; width:10px;"\|Year ! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; width:160px;"\|Album ! colspan="5" style="text-align:center; width:20px;"\|Peak positions
scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" \| CAN ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" \| BEL (Fl) ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" \| BEL (Wa) ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" \| FRA {{cite web \| url=http://lescharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Timber+Timbre \| title=Timber Timbre discography \| publisher=Hung Medien \| work=lescharts.com \|access-date=April 18, 2014}} ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" \| SWI
style="text-align:center;"\|2006 \|Cedar Shakes \| style="text-align:center;"\|— \| style="text-align:center;"\|— \| style="text-align:center;"\|— \| style="text-align:center;"\|— \| style="text-align:center;"\|—
style="text-align:center;"\|2007 \|Medicinals \| style="text-align:center;"\|— \| style="text-align:center;"\|— \| style="text-align:center;"\|— \| style="text-align:center;"\|— \| style="text-align:center;"\|—
style="text-align:center;"\|2009 \|Timber Timbre \| style="text-align:center;"\|— \| style="text-align:center;"\|— \| style="text-align:center;"\|— \| style="text-align:center;"\|69 \| style="text-align:center;"\|—
style="text-align:center;"\|2011 \|Creep on Creepin' On \| style="text-align:center;"\|20 \| style="text-align:center;"\|— \| style="text-align:center;"\|70 \| style="text-align:center;"\|112 \| style="text-align:center;"\|82
style="text-align:center;"\|2014 \|Hot Dreams \| style="text-align:center;"\|21 \| style="text-align:center;"\|84 \| style="text-align:center;"\|48 \| style="text-align:center;"\|36 \| style="text-align:center;"\|55
style="text-align:center;"\|2017 \|Sincerely, Future Pollution \| style="text-align:center;"\|94 \| style="text-align:center;"\|76 \| style="text-align:center;"\|23 \| style="text-align:center;"\|75 {{cite web\|url=http://www.snepmusique.com/tops-semaine/top-album-megafusion/?ye=2017&we=15\|title=Le Top de la semaine : Top Albums – SNEP (Week 15, 2017)\|publisher=Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique\|language=French\|access-date=April 18, 2017}} \| style="text-align:center;"\|36
style="text-align:center;"\|2023 \|Lovage ! colspan="5" \| {{tableTBA}}

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rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; width:10px;"|Year

! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; width:160px;"|Album

! colspan="5" style="text-align:center; width:20px;"|Peak positions

scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | CAN

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | BEL
(Fl)

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | BEL
(Wa)

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | FRA
{{cite web | url=http://lescharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Timber+Timbre | title=Timber Timbre discography | publisher=Hung Medien | work=lescharts.com |access-date=April 18, 2014}}

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | SWI

style="text-align:center;"|2006

|Cedar Shakes