Timothy Monger

Michigan-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Timothy Monger began playing music in his young adults, working on home made four-track recordings along with his old brother James Monger and assorted close friends, some of that have been later on privately released about cassette beneath the name the initial Brothers of Love. The brothers officially shaped the Original Siblings of Love having a third songwriter, Greg McIntosh, in 1996, and relocated to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where in fact the group’s decidedly innovative and postmodern folk-rock method of songwriting and preparations earned them an area pursuing. TOBOSOL’s debut recording, The Legende of Jeb Small, premiered on New York’s Telegraph label in 2000, disclosing a music group with three solid authors who merged some sort of Midwestern Appalachia with solid pop smarts and an offbeat, relaxing lyrical feeling. Their second record on Telegraph, H.O.M.E.S., Vol. 1, made an appearance in 2001, and growing in a far more pop path, drew evaluations to rings like XTC. The music group morphed in to the Great Lakes Misconception Culture in 2004 while preserving the same clean musical strategy, and released THE FANTASTIC Lakes Misconception Culture on Boston’s End, Pop, and Move label in 2005. Monger, using a backlog of music, began focusing on a aspect solo project, leading to the song routine Summer Cherry Spirits, which arrived on Monger’s very own No Bitings label in 2004 — it had been also released the next calendar year in Japan over the Trolley Bus label with extra monitors. Wonderfully orchestrated baroque pop, Spirits recalls the fantastic Beach Boys record Pet Noises in its whimsical, nostalgic, and tuneful recollection of summers previous, and carries a edition of brother Adam’ wonderful “Crime on the Summer Time,” which matches seamlessly in to the series. In 2006, GLMS agreed upon on with Quack! Mass media, a media music and posting outfit situated in Ann Arbor; the group’s second record, Compass Rose Bouquet, premiered through Quack! in July 2007, accompanied by a limited-edition one in 2008. The next year, Monger started focus on his second solo discharge with a recently assembled backing music group. Recorded primarily in a farm within the rural city of Britton, Michigan, THE BRAND NEW Britton Sound premiered in June 2011 on Monger’s personal North Detective label. On the next couple of years, he continued to be busy focusing on a number of tasks, doing session function, and reuniting with GLMS for a small number of displays. Monger’s third single launch, 2017’s Amber Lantern, mixed refined synth textures with components of psych, folk, and power pop.