Hot Dreams

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Released March 31, 2014 Artist Timber Timbre Label Arts & Crafts		Length 43:04 Release date 1 April 2014 Nominations Polaris Music Prize

Hot Dreams(2014) Sincerely, Future Pollution(2017) Genres Folk music, Freak folk, Country blues Similar Timber Timbre albums, Folk music albums

Timber timbre hot dreams

Hot Dreams is the fifth studio album by Canadian band Timber Timbre, released on March 31, 2014 on Arts & Crafts. The album was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize.

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Production

Kirk left Ontario for Los Angeles to write the album and was inspired by his surroundings in the Laurel Canyon. Not writing alone anymore like on previous albums, the group focused more on a rock and roll trajectory with the new album, also making heavy use of vintage synthesizers and the mellotron.

Critical reception

Hot Dreams was released to mostly positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80, based on 19 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable" reception.

Personnel

Taylor Kirk – drums, farfisa organ, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, layout, mellotron, novachord, hammond organ, percussion, piano, theremin, vocals, producer

Simon Trottier – acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, marxophone, mellotron, percussion, tubular bells, vocals, engineer, producer

Mathieu Charbonneau – farfisa organ, harpsichord, mellotron, novachord, piano, vox continental, wurlitzer

Olivier Farfield – drums, fender rhodes, electric guitar, hammond organ, synthesizer, tape machine, engineer

Colin Stetson – baritone sax, bass sax, c-melody sax

Mika Posen – strings, vocals

Simone Schmidt – vocals

Mark Lawson – synthesizer drums, mixing

Romy Lightman – vocals

Songs

1Beat the Drum Slowly5:29
2Hot Dreams4:53
3Curtains!?3:44

References

Hot Dreams Wikipedia

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