Tim Burgess - Typical Music

Released 23rd September 2022.

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 youllfind would certainly shrink from the latter accolade. A hero?? hed likely mutter with a shake of his boyish mop. For playingsome 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 soloalbum, 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, Tims Twitter Listening Parties were a lifeline to many. At a time when the worldshut down, we all retreated indoors, alone, and cancelled gigs were the least of our worries, the North Country Boys idea of utilisingsocia