Tim Burgess releases his eagerly awaited new album today. The frontman of legendary British band, The Charlatans, creator of Tim’s Twitter Listening Party, singer-songwriter, and author’s sixth solo LP, TYPICAL MUSIC is available now via Bella Union/PIAS. Produced at Wales’s famed Rockfield Studio by longtime collaborator Daniel O’Sullivan (Grumbling Fur, Sunn O))), Ulver) and mixed by GRAMMY® Award-winner Dave Fridmann (Tame Impala, The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev), TYPICAL MUSIC includes such captivating new singles as “Here Comes The Weekend,” “Typical Music,” and “Sure Enough,” all joined by official music videos streaming now at YouTube. A new video for the song “Flamingo” directed by Greg McLeod is also streaming now. “Having worked with Daniel O'Sullivan before, he'd made me aware of his collaboration with Tim,” says director McLeod. “Being a long-standing fan of his, I asked if he'd like a film for one of his songs from his forthcoming album, he said yes and so I pointed my brain at his track 'Flamingos' and out popped a brightly colored strange world inhabited by dancing flamingo chicks, and a singing drum. Enjoy!” WATCH “FLAMINGO” OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO LISTEN TO TYPICAL MUSIC WATCH “SURE ENOUGH” OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO WATCH “TYPICAL MUSIC” OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO WATCH “HERE COMES THE WEEKEND” OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO TYPICAL MUSIC has already been hailed as one of the year’s most ambitious and exhilarating new releases, with SPIN praising it in a major feature interview as “anything but Typical Music…the eclectic 22 songs encompassing sparkling psych-pop, electro-speckled rock and more straightforward Britpop.” MORE PRAISE FOR TIM BURGESS + TYPICAL MUSIC: "One of Burgess’ most fully realized concepts, and features a bright sense of love and adoration that reverberates in each song." – CONSEQUENCE
“With HERE COME THE WARM JETS, Sparks and ELO among the reference points here, Burgess’s bushy-tailed optimism and quality control never dips.” – MOJO (4/5) “With support from Spiritualized’s Thighpaulsandra and Grumbling Fur’s Dan O’Sullivan, wiggly electronics abound, from the urgent gallop of the title track and the woozy psych-pop of ‘Kinetic Connection’ to the cinematic orchestrations of ‘Slacker.’ Think The Flaming Lips’ sci-fi sonics given a very English twist.” – UNCUT (7/10) “Tim Burgess remains self-assured and adventurous... TYPICAL MUSIC is by far his most ambitious project to date: a smorgasbord of everything from classic pop to squelchy funk and sci-fi surf rock... A thrillingly eclectic journey.” – SHINDIG (****) “Solo Burgess may be compared to the sort of off-kilter pop made by XTC, Sparks or post-Beatles McCartney. In other words, very good pop indeed.” – THE OBSERVER “Utterly, utterly gleeful. This 22-track double album oozes exuberance, joy and hope despite being yet another made-in-lockdown production…This is a work that absolutely insists you sing along, smiling. Quite frankly, with this confection, Mr. Burgess, you are spoiling us!” – THE ARTS DESK (5/5) # # # Tim Burgess is a proper polymath, a hyperactive multi-talent whose long remarkable career encompasses over three decades as lead singer and frontman of The Charlatans, five diverse solo albums, three unique memoirs, the foundation of the prismatic O Genesis label, and more than 1000 installments of the now-beloved Tim’s Twitter Listening Party. Conceived by Burgess in March 2020 at the dawn of the pandemic era, the ingenious online events brought people around the world together through real-time album playbacks via Twitter, featuring stories from bands and fans, rarely seen images, and exclusive insights and anecdotes from the artists who created some of music’s most iconic albums. The pandemic years also saw Burgess’s own rambling creative muse in full gear, with new songs emerging at a spectacularly rampant pace. A 22-track double album, TYPICAL MUSIC sees him offering up a blockbuster collection of original material as expansive and diverse as it is rich, funky, and fun, embracing heartache, love and free-form studio experimentation through a gamut of musical approaches spanning sparkling psych-pop, sci-fi punk, magic disco, kosmische soul, wiggy electronica, and more. “OK, we all know about double albums, right?,” says Tim Burgess. “Historically, they’ve been thought of as indulgent. But I came to the conclusion that what I was doing was the opposite of that. I wanted to give people everything that I’d done. Every idea was treated as if it was the best thing and had to be treated with extreme care. I wanted to give everything of myself. That was it.” Burgess brought his burgeoning batch of songs to the world famous Rockfield Studios in Monmouthshire, Wales, a storied establishment that held powerful memories for him, including the recording of The Charlatans’ 1997 landmark, TELLIN’ STORIES, an experience irreparably tarnished by the death of the keyboard player Rob Collins in a car crash at the bottom of the lane while making that album. Though Burgess hadn’t properly been back to Rockfield in almost 25 years, he now felt ready to return, this time joined by a pair of truly inspired collaborators in Daniel O’Sullivan, a gifted multi-instrumentalist, producer, and member of his live band, and visionary keyboard/synth wizard Thighpaulsandra (Julian Cope, Coil, Spiritualized). Together the three musicians crafted a colorful, kaleidoscopic universe all its own, working as one to bring Burgess’s far flung songcraft to vivid life. The result is a double album in the classic tradition – an epic cavalcade of wildly divergent songs that serve as a grand testament to its creator’s infinite scope of ambitious ideas, from the primal twang of “Sooner Than Yesterday” and loose-hipped “Revenge Through Art” to the rippling “Kinetic Connection” and spaced-out love song, “Take Me With You.” Teeming with myriad sonic approaches, dizzying invention, and a veritable hurricane of human emotions, TYPICAL MUSIC is anything but. “I fell in love with the world again,” Burgess says. “During Covid, I read a pile of books, got better on guitar. I had new perspective. I wanted to learn how to be Tim Burgess who makes solo records. People have a vision of me as the singer in The Charlatans. That’s not going to change. Then there’s me as the Twitter guy. But I just fell in love with the world again and wanted the world to take me with them.” # # #
TIM BURGESS TYPICAL MUSIC (Bella Union Records) Release Date: September 23, 2022 | 
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