Description

2LP pressed on 140g coloured vinyl (LP1 Red Transparent / LP2 Blue Transparent) in gatefold 350gsm, gloss machine varnish sleeve plus reverse board inner sleeves and obi strip.

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. 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!).

Tracklisting

Here Comes The Weekend
Curiosity
Time That We Call Time
Flamingo
Revenge Through Art
Kinectic Connection
Typical Music
Take Me With You
After This
The Centre of Me (Is a Symphony of
You)
When I See You
Magic Rising
Tender Hooks
L.O.S.T Lost / Will You Take A Look At
My Hand Please
A Bloody Nose
In May
Slacker (Than I’ve Ever Been)
View From Above
A Quarter to Eight
Sooner Than Yesterday
Sure Enough
What’s Meant For You Won’t Pass By You