Today, Timber Timbre are streaming their upcoming fourth album, Sincerely, Future Pollution, ahead of its release date. The album is available to stream courtesy of CBC Music and hits record stores April 7th via Arts & Crafts.
On Sincerely, Future Pollution, the band – Taylor Kirk, Mathieu Charbonneau, and Simon Trottier, with drummer Olivier Fairfield – coats the stark, sensual sound of 2014’s Polaris Music Prize Short-Listed and JUNO Award nominated album Hot Dreams in an oil-black rainbow of municipal grime. It is the cinema of a dizzying dystopia, rattled by the science fiction of this bluntly nonfictional time.
Stream Sincerely, Future Pollution via CBC Music.
For the recording, the band travelled to La Frette chateau outside Paris, where they looked to the studio’s array of archetypal synthesizers for the flesh of the songs. Be it the freedom of recording abroad, or the revelation of these unexplored instruments, Timber Timbre found a release from artistic constriction and created its most daring work yet. A blend of the album’s mid-apocalyptic setting and its idyllic recording, Sincerely, Future Pollution is a romance of neoteric machines and dark, futuristic hues: with promise as beautiful as it is unsettling.
Wresting sincerity from abstraction, Kirk submits to the cycle of self-obsession at the album’s core. Sincerely, Future Pollution is Timber Timbre’s document of this generation’s degeneration and disarray. With Kirk as narrator, a party to the play, we get caught in the folly of the echo chamber, awed by the contrast of this gothic modern age.
Timber Timbre will embark on a North American tour this spring, beginning on April 28, with stops in Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Montreal and Field Trip in Toronto. Full tour dates can be found below.
Pre-order Sincerely, Future Pollution (Deluxe LP, LP, CD, MP3).
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Tour Dates
06/04 Rennes, FR // Mythos Festival
08/04 Brussels, BE // Botanique
09/04 Amsterdam, NL // Paradiso Noord
10/04 Cologne, DE // Luxor
11/04 Berlin, DE // Huxley's
13/04 Malmo, SE // Babel
14/04 Copenhagen, DK // Bremen Teater
15/04 Hamburg, DE // Uebel & Gefährlich
17/04 Tourcoing, FR // Le Grand Mix
18/04 London, UK // Islington Assembly Hall
19/04 Paris, FR // La Cigale
20/04 Bourges, FR // Printemps de Bourges
28/04 Chicago, IL // Lincoln Hall
29/04 Minneapolis, MN // Cedar Cultural Centre
30/04 Winnipeg, MB // West End Cultural Centre
02/05 Edmonton, AB // Starlite Room
03/05 Calgary, AB // Commonwealth
05/05 Vancouver, BC // Vogue Theatre
06/05 Seattle, WA // Tractor Tavern
07/05 Portland, OR // Wonder Ballroom
09/05 San Francisco, CA // Great American Music Hall
10/05 Santa Ana, CA // Constellation Room
11/05 Los Angeles, CA // Echoplex
12/05 San Diego, CA // Soda Bar
14/05 Mayer, AZ // Form Arcosanti Festival
02/06 Montreal, QC // Olympia
04/06 Toronto, ON // Field Trip
06/06 Washington, DC // Black Cat
08/06 Philadelphia, PA // Boot and Saddle
09/06 Cambridge, MA // The Sinclair
10/06 Brooklyn, NY // Music Hall of Williamsburg
10/07 Antwerpen - Deurne, BE // Olt Rivierenhof
13/07 Fribourg, CH // Festival Les Georges
15/07 Dour, BE // Dour Festival
20/08 Brecon Beacons, UK // Green Man Festival
23/08 Bochum, DE // Ruhrtriennale
03/09 Larmer Tree Gardens, UK // End of The Road
Sincerely, Future Pollution Tracklist
1. Velvet Gloves & Spit
2. Grifting
3. Skin Tone
4. Moment
5. Sewer Blues
6. Western Questions
7. Sincerely, Future Pollution
8. Bleu Nuit
9. Floating Cathedral