Hot Dreams is Timber Timbre at its most vivid cinematic vantage. The elements -- Taylor Kirk's singular intonation, quavered in slow, low register, over co-composer/co-producer Simon Trottier's stark orchestration -- connect arid western to plodding horror with the pomp of Hollywood phantasm. "Hot Dreams", Timber Timbre's third studio album for Arts & Crafts, caches the hollow grey tones of "Timber Timbre" (2009), and the angular doo-wop haunt of "Creep On Creepin' On" (2011) in smoothed, viscous tonality: new sonic admissions, chiming sensuality and caprice, neon and haze, from the oftentimes reticent Kirk.
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