Timothy Dick's album "On A Grassblade" is available at CD Baby.
Reflections on the album:
Clean up your apartment; discard the things you keep out of mere habit. Sweep the dust into a dustpan and scatter it outside. Draw the blinds shut and sit in a chair with a hard back. Only then should you put on Timothy Dick's On a Grassblade, a quiet, solitary album that requires and rewards your full attention. It's a work for monastics and hermits, heretics and romantics, a record so subtle it verges on subliminal. Gruff and world-weary, Dick's voice hums beneath the surface; his instrumentation is soft and spare, consecrated by intervals of negative space. His words are impressively precise too, excised and martyred, stretched out and scraped up. On the ballad "Awfully Large Tears For Such A Pretty Face," Dick croaks, "I may seem like a hard man/ Immune to all catastrophe/ But... I couldn't calm the sea." On "California," he sounds even more defeated, simply noting, "All that's left is lost in California."
Throughout, Dick sings with muddy hands and a trampled heart; his songs arrive dressed in the sleeves of dusty blues records. Timeless in the literal sense, they sound like remnants of some ramshackle era. Or they travel windborne like seedlings—wispy, surrendered, nearly invisible. As of yet, there's no telling if they'll survive the winter, let alone sprout new life when they land. But it's that knowledge, that roughshod truth, that gives these songs their vulnerability and their singer his resonance. It's those same feelings, of loss, resurgence and promise, that make me want to clean house and start over anew. To keep playing this record until it has time to fully sink in and take root.
hey man im sorry i missed the bug jar show i was over in toronto i would love to get another on a grass blade from you at some point and be sure and let me know when the next one is be well -zacha
Another spring soon on it's way and I am here another day...
it seems all too long Timothy but truly worth the wait...
Strip Joints mmmmmmmmmmmmm.. don't know where to start it touched my heart and soul.. a pure classic which will endure for sure !!!!!! Thank you deeply.
I hope that you are well and truly inspired going into this wonderful new year with 9 in it !!!
Hey bro! Happy New Year to you too! Hope all the music is going well. I really enjoyed the Auld Lang Syne write-up in City News. Congrats! Looks like you guys are keeping busy. Talk soon!
yo Tim! thanks a million. it means a lot coming from you. im kinda bummed that i didnt get to see you and record. itll have to wait a couple of weeks but itll happen. miss you guys a lot. merry chrsitmas! yours, jose
YO I just got the much awaited ALS 7". I played it on my old school record player. Its a beauty. I love the sound. I will be writing a review on my blog soon. be well. JD
