After spending the year touring in support of her lauded solo album Untame the Tiger, Mary Timony returns with a new single, “Curious Tides.” Pulled from Timony’s archives during the recording of Untame the Tiger, “Curious Tides” is an expansive track whose first half nods to her affinity for golden age British folk rock before launching into a thumping rocker. It is accompanied by a self-directed visualizer. Watch it below and listen to “Curious Tides” wherever you stream music!

Mary Timony on “Curious Tides”:

The first half of the song is a demo I sort of very lazily made in my basement when I was between bands. I kind of forgot about it because it seemed unfinished. At the time, I had wanted to record a full band playing the second part but didn’t get around to it. Last year while recording Untame the Tiger, I remembered the song and we decided to try it. David Christian played drums and Dennis Kane played bass, and we knocked it out pretty fast at 38 North Studio in Virginia.

“Curious Tides” caps off a year that, in addition to the release of Untame the Tiger, saw Mary Timony named one of the top 250 guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone. Untame the Tiger received rave reviews upon release and has been hailed as one of the best albums of the year by NPR’s Sound Opinions, the Boston Globe, Aquarium Drunkard, BrooklynVegan, Post-Trash, Slant, SPIN, and others. 

What critics are saying about Mary Timony and Untame the Tiger: 

“The ferociously brilliant Mary Timony has been rewriting the guitar rulebook for three decades.” —Rolling Stone

“The guitar icon’s first solo album in 19 years confronts heartbreak and loss with intensely melodic, disarmingly straightforward songs that feel as loose and casual as old friends.” —Pitchfork

“Goes down like a goblet of spiked sunshine.” —SPIN

“The guitar hero of a long indie renaissance still has more to say and more riffs to play, and for that, we can’t help but celebrate.” —Paste