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First Listen: Timber Timbre, 'Sincerely, Future Pollution'

The Montreal-based band really wanted to write celebratory songs for its sixth album. But they quickly realized it's not the time for dancing.
Timber Timbre's new album, <em>Sincerely Future Pollution</em>, comes out April 7.

When Taylor Kirk and his bandmates in Timber Timbre set out for France a year ago to record their newest record, , they envisioned a sound you could dance to, that was worthy of celebration. For more than a decade, the Montreal-based band — led by Kirk, who handles much of the writing) to '70s country twang (). None of it has exactly been the stuff that gets one shaking, outside of a narcotized sway in the corner of a plywood bar. isn't, either. But maybe it's not the time to dance.

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