Timber Timbre

Timber Timbre was a Canadian band featuring Taylor Kirk (died in April 2026). The moniker refers to an early series of recordings made in a timber-framed cabin set in the wooded outskirts of Bobcaygeon, Ontario. Timber Timbre was started as a solo project by Taylor Kirk in 2005. Two albums were released independently before the self-titled album was released on Out of This Spark in January 2009. Subsequently signed to Arts & Crafts, the self-titled album was re-released on 30 June in Canada and 28 July internationally. Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

Timber Timbre was a Canadian band featuring Taylor Kirk (died in April 2026). The moniker refers to an early series of recordings made in a timber-framed cabin set in the wooded outskirts of Bobcaygeon, Ontario. Timber Timbre was started as a solo project by Taylor Kirk in 2005. Two albums were released independently before the self-titled album was released on Out of This Spark in January 2009. Subsequently signed to Arts & Crafts, the self-titled album was re-released on 30 June in Canada and 28 July internationally. The album was named as a longlist nominee for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize on June 15, 2009, and was deemed album of the year by Eye Weekly. Mika Posen and Simon Trottier joined Timber Timbre in 2009. The band's song "Magic Arrow" featured in the television show Breaking Bad, in the episode "Caballo Sin Nombre", as well as in the television 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..., as well Bottom of the World (2017), and in the television 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). 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). The band's fifth record, Hot Dreams, was released on 1 April 2014. It was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize (which eventually went to Tanya Tagaq's Animism). 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. Timber Timbre's sixth album, Sincerely, Future Pollution, was released on 7 April 2017, on City Slang Records. Timber Timbre's seventh album, Lovage, was released on 6 October 2023, on Integral Music. Other members of the band included Mathieu Charbonneau (keyboards 2013-2019), Olivier Fairfield (drums & keyboards 2013-2017), Mark Wheaton (drums 2017), Michael Dubue (piano, synthesizer, voice 2023-2026), and Adam Bradley Schreiber (drums, percussion 2023-2026). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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