Blog: Spinner.com

Filed under: Exclusive , You Oughta Know , Canada For some folks, love is a many-splendoured thing. But Timber Timbre 's Taylor Kirk prefers his love songs a bit spookier. His beautifully macabre self-titled album, recently long-listed for the Polaris Prize , is full of eerie sounds and ghoulish lyrics. But when Kirk sings, "You dug me out of this shallow grave/So badly decomposed/And you still took me home" in 'Lay Down in the Tall Grass,' it's really just a shy young man singing about love. [...]