Rádio Timblesom

Rádio Timblesom is the kind of station you stumble upon and can't quite leave. It doesn't try to be anything specific, which is both its weakness and its strength. Some days you'll catch a bossa nova classic from João Gilberto. Other times it's a deep cut from a São Paulo indie band you've never heard of. The mixing is inconsistent: sometimes talk breaks feel too long, sometimes the DJ lets a track breathe. But that's radio. It's alive. The station's identity seems rooted in a relaxed, uncurated feel. You won't get a neatly packaged genre experience. What you get is a slice of Brazilian music…