Timey Wimey: The First Fourth Year

**Timey-Wimey: The First Fourth Year** (DWT 048) is a compilation album released by TCoS on the 23rd of November 2023 as a belated celebration of the band's fourth anniversary and a more timely (wimely) celebration of the 60th anniversary of the blue box show, featuring a selection of popular TCoS tracks, all of which had been released between the summer of 2021 and autumn of 2023. It was the third compilation album of this nature, following the success of Confusing the Polarity in 2020 and Greatest Hits II in 2021.

The front cover art for Timey Wimey: The First Fourth YearThe front cover art for Timey Wimey: The First Fourth Year
## Background

Following the success of the “Skaroversary” celebrations for TCoS' second anniversary it seemed only natural for a similar celebratory period the following year. However, by the time of the 3rd anniversary, the band had fallen into something of a hiatus, with production grinding to a very sluggish pace, with only 7 singles and one album released between the second and third anniversaries there was not enough material to produce a new compilation album, and the only release made to coincide with the anniversary itself ended up being a remastered release of the group's first album – Abzorbaloff. By the time the group's fourth anniversary rolled around, TCoS were slowly picking up the pieces following the loss of their recording studio and offices at DWT Tower, a period of great upheval for the band. The haitus had ended but production was left extremely behind schedule as they scrambled through the summer to release music that had been held back for over a year by this point. A fourth anniversary compilation album was approved, but because of the aforementioned delays was not cleared for release until late November, four months after the band's official anniversary.

## Track Listing

1. Sgt Skaro's Lonely Tracks Club Cult
2. Sparroids is Bae
3. 24 Hours from Clom
4. Goat Vibrations
5. What's New Cybermat
6. Twerk Experience
7. Last T-MAT to Clarksville
8. Bok Save the Queen
9. The Greatest Bulkman (Everybody Bulks)
10. Orc Fight Rumble Extravaganza
11. Do Not Eat The Vinyl
12. Slightly No Eyebrow
13. Deborah's Diner
14. Adequate Volume of Nutella
15. Dripping Excessive Baby Oil Ruins a High Jump
16. Burning Down the Boards

## Artwork

The cover artwork on the album was inspired by two pieces of Gorillaz iconography, the online “visualiser” for The Now Now in the case of the front cover, and a poster design tie in from Song Machine in the case of the back. The back cover image shows the band gathered around Deborah J's famous yellow Ford Capri, watching as their beloved home at DWT Towers burns in the distance. This is symbolic, as this album effectively acts as the final chapter in the band's DWT era, with the final track being Burning Down The Boards – the band's impromptu tribute song to mark the occasion of the fire – and the image of the fire on the reverse of the album cover represents the event as being the conclusion of the era represented by that album.

In an interview with “The Daily Vortex” journalist Bundesrat, the group were asked how they had found the time to write and give a live performance of a song about the fire as it was happening and also manage to take a publicity photo with three of the group wearing different clothes to those worn in the concert. Deborah J waved away this concern, as a veteran of the stage in her earlier career the ability to quickly change clothes had been a vital skill to be trained in, and the band found themselves in so many fire-related misadventures that they had a veritable wealth of lyrics on the topic ready to put together a song at the shortest of notice.

 Compilation albums
 Live albums
 EPs
 Singles