Timber Timbre: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

The music of Canada’s Timber Timbre is often strange and unsettling. The band, led by Taylor Kirk — a crooner with a deceptively sweet voice — makes spare, evenly paced songs that sound like late-night echoes from a swampy woods. It’s the kind of music you’d expect to hear in a David Lynch movie, or in HBO’s deeply disturbing series True Detective: dark and unnerving, yet oddly seductive. It’s an eerie, mysterious vibe that’s nearly impossible to re-create while playing live in someone’s office at 2