by Temples
Release Date: 27 September 2019
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: ATO Records
£24.99
Temples Hot Motion Limited Zoetrope Mixed Coloured Vinyl 2LP Set
Overview:
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.
US import zoetrope edition on mixed forest green and tan with red and yellow splatter vinyl with animated zoetrope labels in a gatefold sleeve, double-sided fold-out poster, custom inner sleeve and digital download code.
Featured Tracks:
Hot Motion
You're Either On Something
Holy Horses
The Howl
Context
The Beam
Not Quite The Same
Atomise
It's All Coming Out
Step Down
Monuments
Release Date: 27 September 2019
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: ATO Records
£21.49
Release Date: 10 February 2014
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Heavenly Recordings
£16.99
