Typical Music

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Typical Music
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Studio album by
Tim Burgess
Released23 September 2022 (2022-09-23)
Studio Rockfield Studios [1]
Length1:28:10
Label Bella Union
Tim Burgess chronology
I Love the New Sky
(2020)		Typical Music
(2022)
Singles from Typical Music
  1. "Here Comes the Weekend"
    Released: 14 April 2022 [2]
  2. "Typical Music"
    Released: 6 June 2022 [1]
  3. "Sure Enough"
    Released: 23 August 2022 [3]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 78/100 [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Clash 8/10 [6]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
MusicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [9]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]
PopMatters 7/10 [12]

Typical Music is the sixth studio album by English musician and lead vocalist of The Charlatans Tim Burgess. It was released on 23 September 2022 by Bella Union. [13]

Contents

The album has produced singles such as "Here Comes the Weekend", "Typical Music" and "Sure Enough"

Background

On 14 April 2022, Tim Burgess released the first single "Here Comes The Weekend", with the music video being directed by Kevin Godley. [2]

Burgess announced the release of the new double album on 6 June 2022, along with the title track "Typical Music". [1] When discussing the album, Burgess said:

"I wanted to give people everything that I’d done. And everything that I brought to the studio and worked on with the guys, I coloured them all in equally. Every idea was treated as if it was the best thing and had to be treated with extreme care. I wanted to give everything of myself" [13]

The third single "Sure Enough" was released on 23 August 2022. [3]

Critical reception

Typical Music was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 78, based on 10 reviews. [4]

Writing for The Guardian , Dave Simpson wrote: "Typical Music features Sparks-ish electronic pop, sumptuous arrangements and, on the title track, modern psychedelia. The lyrics are either endearingly gauche or deeply meaningful." [7]

Accolades

Publications' year-end list appearances for Typical Music
Critic/PublicationListRankRef
MusicOMH MusicOMH's Top 50 Albums of 202249 [14]

Track listing

Disc One
No.TitleLength
1."Here Comes the Weekend"4:35
2."Curiosity"3:10
3."Time That We Call Time"3:45
4."Flamingo"3:20
5."Revenge Through Art"2:13
6."Kinectic Connection"3:40
7."Typical Music"3:03
8."Take Me With You"2:24
9."After This"4:24
10."The Centre of Me (Is a Symphony of You)"4:23
11."When I See You"6:58
Disc Two
No.TitleLength
1."Magic Rising"4:56
2."Tender Hooks"3:30
3."L.O.S.T Lost/Will You Take a Look at My Hand Please"7:10
4."A Bloody Nose"3:20
5."In May"3:05
6."Slacker (Than I've Ever Been)"4:10
7."View From Above"5:09
8."A Quarter to Eight"3:57
9."Sooner Than Yesterday"2:44
10."Sure Enough"3:26
11."What's Meant for You Won't Pass by You"4:48

Charts

Chart performance for Typical Music
Chart (2022)Peak
position
Scottish Albums (OCC) [15] 18
UK Albums (OCC) [16] 90
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [17] 7

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