The primary few chords of Mary Timony’s Untame the Tiger, her first solo document in 15 years, really feel like a heat hug from an outdated buddy. In any case, the singer-songwriter has been making music for 3 many years as a part of the bands Helium, Autoclave, and Wild Flag, and, presently, Ex Hex. Then her voice, unmistakable in spite of everything these years, along with her gravelly tone that at all times finds magnificence within the matter-of-fact, sings, “Verify the scenario, is it merciless or is it variety?” 

Although not instantly obvious, Untame the Tiger is a document about loss and grief. In 2021, Timony’s long-term relationship ended, after which each her dad and mom obtained sick on the identical time and ultimately handed away. “They lived proper down the road so it was actually intense,” the singer-songwriter explains on a latest Zoom from her basement studio, her band arrange seen within the background. “I didn’t actually have a plan for what I used to be going to do, I simply knew I wished to get again into being artistic.”

Though Timony hadn’t launched an album beneath her personal identify since 2005’s Ex Hex, she’d been busy along with her different bands and initiatives just lately Hammered Hulls; however these songs had been totally different. “The songs that had been popping out of me didn’t sound like a band, they seemed like a solo document,” she remembers, “Then I began interested by how I wished to make use of acoustic devices, and the way I wished to play with totally different drummers…I wished the liberty of not working in a particular means.”