Bella Union
Tim Burgess - Typical Music (2LP, Red + Blue Vinyl with Obi Strip)
Regular price £27.00 Save £-27.00Product Description
-
Has
there
been
a
busier
musician
over
the
last
two
years?
A
more
prolific
artist?
More
creative?
More
heroic?
Tim
Burgess
–
as
self-effacing
a
band
leader,
solo
star,
label
runner,
repeat
memoirist
and
all-round
caffeinated
can-do
kid
as
you’ll
find
–
would
certainly
shrink
from
the
latter
accolade.
“A
hero??”
he’d
likely
mutter
with
a
shake
of
his
boyish
mop.
“For
playing
some
records?”
Yes,
Tim,
we
would
say
that.
And
not
just
because
with
the
May
2020,
mid-lockdown
appearance
of
I
Love
The
New
Sky,
his
fifth
solo
album,
he
undauntedly
pushed
on
with
releasing
an
album
that
brought
much-needed
sunshine
to
a
world
enveloped
in
gloom.
Over
the
course
of
the
first
year
of
the
pandemic,
Tim’s
Twitter
Listening
Parties
were
a
lifeline
to
many.
At
a
time
when
the
world
shut
down,
we
all
retreated
indoors,
alone,
and
cancelled
gigs
were
the
least
of
our
worries,
the
North
Country
Boy’s
idea
of
utilising
social
media
to
unite
us
round
a
digital
turntable
was
inspired.
Meanwhile,
Burgess
was
writing.
And
writing.
And
writing.
From
September
2020
to
summer
2021,
ideas
poured
out
of
Burgess.
He’d
been
encouraged
by
Simon
Raymonde,
boss
of
his
record
label
Bella
Union
¬–
and,
of
course,
a
former
Cocteau
Twin.
He
applied
a
musician’s
logic:
if
you
can’t
tour
your
last
album,
write
a
new
one.
Then,
when
you
can
tour
again,
you’ll
have
two
albums’
worth
of
songs
to
play.
Well,
now,
arguably,
Burgess
has
three
albums’
worth
of
songs
to
perform
live.
Typical
Music
is
a
22-track
double,
a
blockbuster
set
of
songs
that
are
as
expansive
and
diverse
as
they
are
rich.
As
fun
as
they
are
funky.
That
embrace
heartache
and
love.
That
run
the
gamut,
from
ABBA
(in
the
shape
of
guest
vocalist
Pearl
Charles,
whose
own
brilliant
Magic
Mirror
album
is
the
sound
of
the
magic
Swedes
doin'
disco)
to
Zappa
(free-form
studio
experimentation
is
go!).
Read More