Temples – Hot Motion (2019) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

It is one of the brilliant facets of recorded music that while it can frame forever in time one of humanity’s most fluid art forms, those captured sounds themselves can go on to become an active launchpad for the ideas, memories, emotions and feelings of those listening. Returning with their third album, Hot Motion, Temples have not just provided a strong demonstration of this dual static/frenetic nature, but they’ve created a record that revels in this beautiful contradiction. A brilliantly crafted, thoughtfully recorded collection, the album’s propulsive, seemingly immediate songs soon reveal an impressive depth of ideas and energy with subsequent listens because, as its title warns, Hot Motion is not a record that stands still. “I’m excited for people to experience these songs for the first time,” declares singer and guitarist James Bagshaw. “They are constructed in such a way that the album should feel relatively instantaneous, but we did not water down our creative ideas. Getting that balance can be hard, perhaps on the last record on some songs we used too many layers to create depth, but making this album we discovered that depth doesn’t simply come by layering things, it can come from the intensity of an idea.” While proud of 2017’s electronically orchestrated Volcano, the trio – completed by bassist Tom Walmsley and guitarist Adam Smith – feel they have reconnected with the verve and spirit of their debut, 2014’s Sun Structures, although Hot Motion proves as unique and forward-thinking as any Temples album.

On their album Volcano (2017), Temples placed their guitars to one side and turned to keyboards and synths. Released three years after Sun Structures (their playful debut album which often brought to mind The Beatles, The Zombies and Pink Floyd from the Syd Barrett era) the British group cooked up some new psychedelic pills that mixed sixties/seventies sonorities with more contemporary Tame Impala-esque sounds. Still as dreamlike as ever, Hot Motion is made up of the usual Temples DNA and also includes multiple references. Like the single Context for example. “This track was originally written as an observation of words being taken out of context” explains frontman James Bagshaw, “and how that changes the sentiment and meaning of words. This thought process crossed over into the musicality of the song. I wanted to reinvigorate the idea of the guitar solo, and also re- contextualise influences from my favourite musical pioneers. There is a nod to Les Paul and Mary Ford, and the guitar solo pays homage to a recording technique made famous on the piano sound on In My Life by The Beatles. We recorded the guitar solo at half speed, and then sped it up afterwards.” Aiming to be more ambitious on this album, Temples also reveal tracks like It’s All Coming Out where their almost cinematographic arrangements echo John Barry from his golden age in the sixties. A brilliant record packed full of surprises. – Marc Zisman

Tracklist:

1. Hot Motion (5:49)
2. You’re Either On Something (3:47)
3. Holy Horses (3:05)
4. The Howl (4:25)
5. Context (3:40)
6. The Beam (3:06)
7. Not Quite The Same (5:12)
8. Atomise (3:53)
9. It’s All Coming Out (3:49)
10. Step Down (4:06)
11. Monuments (4:28)

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