Tim Baker Announces New EP ‘Along The Mountain Road’; Previews With Single “Twenty Twenty”

Almost a year to the day his latest LP, The Festival was released in 2022 – Tim Baker shared that a new companion EP is on the way.  Along The Mountain Road serves as a sonic and scenic guide to the creation of Baker’s last album, The Festival, standing alone as a supporting EP. 

Where The Festival explored the existential anxiety and big dreams of pandemic isolation, the upcoming EP centres on Baker’s relocation home, from Toronto to Newfoundland, where all the recordings for the EP would eventually take place. Along The Mountain Road frames the move as it ultimately felt to Baker – like a pilgrimage, reaching back to his origins, his geographic and spiritual roots, and ultimately to a new beginning. As a companion to his last album, the new EP allows a peek behind the curtain of how the album came to be and ultimately tells its own unique side story to Baker’s creative process. 

“Twenty Twenty” is a preview into the new collection of songs. Written on a summer’s day shortly after his homecoming, it reflects the experience of bracing against the storm of COVID-19 at that was raging at home, by the ocean where so many other storms have been weathered before. It’s a nod to the year it was written, and the palpable uncertainty of that time. 

The video is one long drone shot,  filmed by Tom Cochrane and edited by Aaron Elliot. It captures a time when Baker and his small team (Marcus Paquin and Liam O’ Neill) took refuge in their makeshift studio at the legendary Fogo Island Inn. The Inn was shuttered in the pandemic and then under strict safety protocols was able to open its doors to Baker and his essential music production team as they began to make the new record. While Paquin and O’Neill were set up in the library, Baker was in the great hall of the Inn, at the grand piano. The trio were linked by a live video feed, and got down to business creating. 

Along The Mountain Road will be released on October 20th, 2023. 

Live dates

9/30 – St. Catharine’s ON – CICADA Festival

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