Timber Timbre: Creep on Creepin' On – review

(Full Time Hobby)Timber Timbre are a Canadian trio whose rootsy third album, released in 2009, suggested they were born and raised in the deep south. Its follow-up is less indebted to folk, combining doo-wop, crepuscular blues and, on "Swamp Magic", woozy chamber pop. There are traces of rockabilly, too, notably on the sleazy title track, which makes fine use of a saxophone and sounds like the Cramps reborn as an MOR act. Such surprises, though, are in short supply, while frontman Taylor Kirk's ...

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