When you tune in to The WiNK, it takes a couple
minutes for you to hear a word. But then it takes only
one line until "and then you die," uttered in a voice
of mottled, throaty horror, as if ghosts that haven't
yet shown themselves are advancing through walls.
Working with the creative team of producer Cate Le
Bon, drummer Stella Mozgawa, and engineer Samur
Khouja, Tim's located the corners of a perfect square,
with their creativity and truth crafting unique parts to
function as songs within songs, giving the tunes doublejointed
features that extend their original intentions.
The Presley guitar hand has a powerful, yet quicksilver
touch, with metallic brilliance ALWAYS, esp. in rhythm
figurations, where it wrings chords out like panic
signals, highlighting "Can You Blame," "Long Bow,"
"Underwater Rain," and "Clue" (to name a few), and a
cover version of Willie "Loco" Alexander's "Kerouac"
(nod and a wink!), where a smooth and steadfast lyric
melody is supplanted by a throw of broken guitar and
shards of keys. Throughout The WiNK, Tim's tone is
thin and princely, connecting the dots sideways and
backwards to align and make the image emerge
