Timber Timbre: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

The music of Canada s Timber Timbre is often strange and unsettling. The band, led by Taylor Kirk a crooner with a deceptively sweet voice makes spare, evenly paced songs that sound like latenight echoes from a swampy woods. It s the kind of music you d expect to hear in a David Lynch movie, or in HBO s deeply disturbing series True Detective: dark and unnerving, yet oddly seductive. It s an eerie, mysterious vibe that s nearly impossible to recreate while playing live in someone s office at 2