Review Fix Exclusive: Adobe Collective’s Tim Chinnock Talks ‘Blind’ And More

Review Fix chats with Adobe Collective’s Tim Chinnock, who discusses his origin in music, as well as the band’s new single, “Blind,” as well as their goals for 2020.

Review Fix: How did you get involved in music?

Tim Chinnock: When I was 4 or 5 my dad was listening to a record of Pachelbel’s Canon in D and I turned to my mom and asked, “What is making that sound?” We figured out that I was asking about the violin, and before you know it she had me in lessons which is where I learned a lot of my core music knowledge. Later, I taught myself guitar using my dad’s old folk song books and that’s when I learned to sing and play guitar at the same time. Writing songs came early for me — I played my first original song in a band I formed with a couple of friends in Jr. High School. I took almost 15 years off from songwriting while I went through school to eventually become a Navy doctor, but when I was stationed at the 29 Palms Marine base in 2011, I fell onto a burgeoning music scene. I picked up songwriting again and to get the songs out into the world I started The Adobe Collective.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Chinnock: Songs come to me in little pieces that I put together over time. I have a lot of little guitar ideas recorded into my phone and I have a running list of lyric ideas that usually come to me as I’m driving or running or watching my kids. Usually, I then bring these song ideas to the band and we see how they evolve and what pieces other people add. With this new album, however, there were a few songs that were much more collaborative, even one where we sat down with nothing and built the song from the ground up.

Review Fix: What makes the band different?

Chinnock: What we’ve been doing lately is combining some of the desert psychedelic or cosmic sounds over the top of what is essentially folk music with an indie pop sensibility. Faith and I are really folk singers so there is an interesting tension between the smallness of our voices and the band’s ability to sound huge enough to reach the stars.  

Review Fix: What inspires you?

Chinnock: I’m inspired by watching people who believe in what they’re doing. By the openness of the California desert. By the freedom of children.

Review Fix: How was “Blind” written?

Chinnock: I had the beginning of the chorus and the melody for the rest rolling around in my mind for quite some time, but never was quite clear what the song was about. We had completed the other 9 songs on the album and were thinking about what other songs we could add to finish the album, I brought the idea for Blind in for everybody to hear. We sat down and started to hash out what the verse was and everything came together really fast and suddenly the song made sense. We finished the lyrics and the song structure and recorded it right there in one day.

Review Fix: How are your live shows different from your studio work?

Chinnock: With this new album we try to stay somewhat true to the recordings, but the live shows have grown in energy over the last few months. We use a wide dynamic range to keep people wondering what’s next and we more than anything just want to tell an intriguing story.

Review Fix: What inspired your latest single?

Chinnock: Sometimes it seems like there’s always something better just around the corner no matter how good it is right now. It’s like I’m blind to how good this life is. But this time, instead of fighting against that blindness and beating myself up for it, I decided to embrace it and found out I was able to look so much deeper inside myself to connect with the goodness there… and suddenly goodness was showing up all around me.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2020?

Chinnock: We have a video premiere in early January and plan to release our new album on January 10 and have a great show planned that night at our local live music hotspot, the world-famous Pappy and Harriet’s. Then we are working on a spring tour. We are currently booking ourselves, but really looking to make connections to work with someone to get bigger shows so we can make more of a living doing this thing.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Chinnock: We’ll see!! We’re working on better booking, selling our album and looking ahead to making recordings in the future.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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