{"id":624167,"date":"2026-04-23T21:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624167\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:43:09","slug":"timber-timbres-taylor-kirk-dead-at-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624167\/","title":{"rendered":"Timber Timbre&#8217;s Taylor Kirk Dead At 44"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Kirk, singer for the Canadian indie band Timber Timbre, has passed away. <a href=\"https:\/\/exclaim.ca\/music\/article\/r-i-p-taylor-kirk-of-timber-timbre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">According to Exclaim!<\/a>, a Kirk representative confirms that he died &#8220;suddenly&#8221; last week. No cause of death has been reported. Kirk was 44.<\/p>\n<p>Timber Timbre, whose members were based in Toronto and Montreal, made a stark, haunted form of indie rock that was influenced by old folk and blues. Kirk sang in a high, warble that sounded mystical even when his band was at its funkiest. Timber Timbre first found an audience with their 2009 self-titled album. They signed to Arts &amp; Crafts, where they collaborated with Feist and released several albums that got Polaris Prize nominations. Their last album 2023&#8217;s Lovage. Check out some of their work below.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Kirk, singer for the Canadian indie band Timber Timbre, has passed away. According to Exclaim!, a Kirk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-624167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}