Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Trystan's Best #30: Timber Timbre - Medicinals

Released: January 1st, 2007

Folk music these days is full of bearded, plaid-ed introverts just barely creeping out of cabins and grain silos to deliver wonderful albums to record labels and on to us, the fans. While there may be "better" acts out there, there is none more interesting than Timber Timbre. Over three albums this decade, Taylor Kirk has weaved truly haunting music out of a fairly limited range of instruments, all the while creating a large, brooding sound that creeps through skeletal trees and on under your skin. This isn't to say his music is equivalent to watching a horror film, there's much beauty and romance to be had here. Kirk simply challenges you to crawl into the abyss and find it.

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