Decadence, artificiality and the maintenance of appearance: at the sight of the property with its palm trees, cacti and the car parked on the street, which can be seen in creepy black and white on the cover of Timber Timbre`s Hot Dreams, one thinks first of older, very rich, bored millionaires who rumlungern with significantly younger, scantily clad women by the pool, sipping high-percentage Cocktail`s and take illigal substances to be. Or places like San Fernando Valley in California to shoot a. In the head, whose scenic silhouette in the 70s attracted the porn industry and since then can turn hundreds of movies there One might even paged collect the associations that holds this cover for, but then not a word about the exciting music of the trio from Canada would have fallen. One can keep the sound for retro or at least for very traditional. On the one hand so gefallen- out of time and then yet to sound so self again, is a balancing act, which is quite spectacular. Imagine Just imagine how it would feel when Enio Morricone and Portishead have decided to work together to write the soundtrack for a spaghetti western. The script could be from Francis Ford Coppola or Quentin Trantino and address the mysterious kidnapping of a Cowboy`s by aliens in the desert Nevada`s. Or something like that. The Moody Blues, the sacral folk and the occasional use of psycho-strings Alà Third by Portishead would musically inferior this Kopfkino any case perfectly.
