Timid, The Brave is a project by Tim Selles of Hamilton, Ontario. He has just released his debut album, the self-titled Timid, The Brave, on Other Songs Music Co. (which is a great little independent label based in Hamilton which has put out a lot of really good folk and acoustic releases since its inception in 2005 – I’d highly recommend checking out the other artists on their roster). This is introspective folk in the vein of Noah Gundersen or Right Away Great Captain and certainly holds its own among such comparisons. The blurb on the label’s website says that these are “songs that wrestle with the disappointments of failure, the allure of departure, and the complexities of faith” and that’s a pretty good overview of the atmosphere and feel of the record. The album was produced by Selles and Scott Orr, another Other Songs Music Co. artist who I’ve been a fan of for a while now.
Head over to Bandcamp to buy a CD of the album for $10 CAD (£6.25), which is more than worth it just for the lovely artwork (some hasty research shows it to be an oil painting by Rockwell Kent that was completed around 1925). The album is also available for download for $8 CAD (£5 – which is a steal).