Hot Dreams is the fifth studio album by Canadian band Timber Timbre, released on March 31, 2014[1] on Arts & Crafts.[2] The album was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize.[3]

Hot Dreams
Studio album by Timber Timbre
Released	March 31, 2014
Length	43:04
Label	Arts & Crafts
Timber Timbre chronology
Creep On Creepin' On (2011) Hot Dreams (2014) Sincerely, Future Pollution (2017)

Production

Frontman Taylor Kirk left Ontario for Los Angeles to write the album and was inspired by his surroundings in the Laurel Canyon.[4] Not writing alone anymore – as they had on previous albums – the group focused more on a rock and roll trajectory with the new album, also making heavy use of vintage synthesizers and the mellotron.[5][6]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	80/100[7]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Guardian	[8]
NME	(8/10)[9]
PopMatters	(8/10)[10]
Drowned in Sound	(7/10)[11]
Spectrum Culture	(4/5)[12]

Hot Dreams was released to mostly positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80, based on 19 reviews, which indicates a "generally favorable" reception.[7]

Track listing

Personnel

• Taylor Kirk – drums, Farfisa organ, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, layout, mellotron, Novachord, Hammond organ, percussion, piano, theremin, vocals, producer
• Simon Trottier – acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, marxophone, mellotron, percussion, tubular bells, vocals, engineer, producer
• Mathieu Charbonneau – farfisa organ, harpsichord, mellotron, Novachord, piano, vox continental, wurlitzer
• Olivier Farfield – drums, fender Rhodes, electric guitar, Hammond organ, synthesizer, tape machine, engineer
• Colin Stetson – baritone sax, bass sax, c-melody sax
• Mika Posen – strings, vocals
• Simone Schmidt – vocals
• Mark Lawson – synthesizer drums, mixing
• Romy Lightman – vocals

References