Timber Timbre: Creep on Creepin' On [ARTS & CRAFTS]

Why you'll love it

This Arts & Crafts pressing is on 180g vinyl with a printed inner sleeve and a download card. The album made the ten-title shortlist for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize.

This edition

• 180g vinyl
• Printed inner sleeve
• Download card included
• Lyrics included

About the album

The name comes from a timber-framed cabin outside Bobcaygeon, Ontario, where Taylor Kirk made his first recordings, and that woodsy, lamplit feeling never left. By the fourth album Kirk had a proper band around him, with Mika Posen on strings and Simon Trottier on guitar and keys, and the sound grew into something closer to a haunted lounge.

They recorded at Petite Église in Farnham, Québec, and the Treatment Room in Montréal, with Mark Lawson and Kees Dekker at the desk. "Bad Ritual" opens on a slow, sinister piano stomp, "Black Water" is a crooner's lament that later turned up in Russian Doll and For a Good Time, Call..., and "Woman" and "Too Old to Die Young" sway like a 1950s ballad heard through a motel wall.

Exclaim put it neatly in 2011: the guests come and go, but the essence is always Kirk's personal vision. Best played after dark, though we've tried it at noon on a Tuesday and it still gave the shop a pleasant chill.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Arts & Crafts (cat# A&C061), the 2011 album.