Sold Date: March 27, 2018
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Timber Timbre's music has always traced a shadowed path, using cues of the past to fuse the sound of a distant, haunted now. On its fourth record – Sincerely, Future Pollution – Timber Timbre coats the stark, sensual sound of 2014's 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. First single – "Sewer Blues" – is an ironclad groove marked by plodding, heavy rhythm, cavernous delay, and a backdrop of starry synthesizers. The scene is set with the long cold tones of album starter "Velvet Glove & Spit" and Taylor Kirk's warm but mournful vocals.

For the recording, the trio – armed with "secret weapon" Olivier Fairfield on drums – traveled 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. Perhaps for the first time, Timber Timbre indulged its alleged "decade drift" – from the self-titled record's 50s doo-wop, to Creep On Creepin On's oblique 60s folk, and Hot Dreams' 70s caprice – allowing the tools to personify the songs. 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.

The result is a newfangled sound with the plastic, cinematic tint of 80s avarice. "Grifting" struts, literally grifts, a deep, synthetic funk, with brash determination never before heard in Timber Timbre's earthy catalogue. "Moment" glints with dazzling synthesizers – hiding heartbreak with the mastery of Nick Cave's most elegant dirges – before devolving into a fray of shredded guitar. The title track growls with low-end urgency then combusts in a cloud of chiming sequencers. "Western Questions" lurks like the exotic, deserted remnants of Hot Dreams' "Grand Canyon," while "Bleu Night" is electrified with vocoder verses and the poltergeist of seven billion handheld devices.

If each Timber Timbre record is framed in genre play, on Sincerely, Future Pollution, the components are the most askew: the glam of Roxy Music; the plaintive pop of Talk Talk; the disquiet of Suicide; the invincibility of Talking Heads; the haunting This Mortal Coil. All (and more) unlikely references are present, tethering Timber Timbre's experimentation to points of familiarity. The range is an acute angle from New Age to Popular French Disco Revival like Daft Punk and Air, filtered through Timber Timbre's painterly imagination. Freshly exhumed, Sincerely, Future Pollution is a portent from the bygone year 2016:

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