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Mary Bozana Timony (born 1969 or 1970) is an American indie rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, Bass guitar, and viola. She has been a member of the bands Helium, Autoclave, Wild Flag, and Hammered Hulls, and currently fronts Ex Hex.
Timony's music is often heavy and dark, frequently using drones, beats, and Musical mode melodies reminiscent of European Medieval music. She uses a number of alternate guitar tunings, most prominent of which is DADGAE. Timony's influences include Wire, the Slits, Fugazi, and Television.
Her unique style has been cited as an influence amongst musicians such as Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz and many more. Rolling Stone ranked Timony at number 95 on their 2023 list of the 250 greatest guitarists of all time.
In 1990–91 Timony played guitar and shared lead vocals in the Washington, D.C.-based band Autoclave. She later relocated to Boston, where she graduated from Boston University with a degree in English literature and formed the band Helium in the summer of 1992, recording two albums and three EPs with the group between 1994 and 1997. During this same period, Timony also collaborated with Helium bassist Ash Bowie in the short-lived side project Led Byrd, which contributed tracks to several various-artists compilations.
Helium disbanded in 1998, whereupon Timony moved back to Washington, DC and embarked on her solo career, recording albums in 2000 and 2002 ( Mountains and The Golden Dove). She joined with drummer Devin Ocampo for her third solo album Ex Hex, which was released in 2005 on the Lookout! Records label and features the two performing together as a duo. In the same year, she contributed vocals to Team Sleep's self-titled album on the tracks "Tomb of Liegia" and "King Diamond."
She released a fourth solo album, The Shapes We Make, on the Kill Rock Stars label on May 8, 2007. A music video for "Sharp Shooter" was produced by the art collective Paper Rad.
In early 2009, Mary Timony formed a new band, Pow Wow, with Jonah R. Takagi and Winston H. Yu. As of June 2009 the group added T. J. Lipple and changed its name to Soft Power. marytimony.com, Archived on December 22, 2010
In September 2010, Mary Timony and members of Sleater-Kinney, The Minders, and Quasi announced that they were working on a new album under the moniker Wild Flag. It was released on Merge Records on September 13, 2011.
After Wild Flag's breakup, Timony formed Ex Hex with Fire Tapes bassist Betsy Wright, and The Aquarium drummer Laura Harris. Their debut album Rips was released on Merge Records in October 2014. "Rock Supergroup Wild Flag Are No More," Spin. Retrieved on February 22, 2018. Hogan, Marc (December 5, 2013)] Her former bandmate Jonah Takagi produced both Rips and the group's sophomore effort, It's Real (released in March 2019 on Merge Records).
Since 2018, she has been a member of the Washington, D.C.-based band Hammered Hulls, playing bass.
Her latest solo album, Untame the Tiger, was released by Merge Records in February 2024.
Her brother, Patrick Timony, is the keyboard player for the band The Picture is Dead.
There is a reference to Mary Timony in the lyrics to the song "Your Bruise" by the American indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, from their 1998 debut album Something About Airplanes.
In 1995, Timony recorded the song "All Dressed Up In Dreams" with Stephin Merritt, on The 6ths album Wasps' Nests. She also recorded vocals for a one-off alt-country project called Lincoln '65. This project's sole output was a 7" single released by Slow River Records in 1996, labeled simply Lincoln '65, and contained two tracks, "Dreams" and "Jellyfish".
Timony collaborated with Team Sleep on "Tomb of Liegia" and "King Diamond" on their 2005 self-titled album, and "Let's Go" from the Deluxe Edition release of the album in 2024. In 2007 she recorded an album with Garland of Hours, a group that features cellist Amy Domingues.
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