Volcano
Temples’ second album brings increased purpose to the heady psychedelia of their debut, *Sun Structures*. Synths add playful menace to the dynamic grooves of “Certainty” and “Mystery of Pop,” and whether the quartet dabble in freak-folk (“Oh the Saviour”) or motorik glam (“Roman God-Like Man”), insistent melodies are always sewn in. With its euphoric chorus, the widescreen “Strange or Be Forgotten” could have been written to fill arenas. On this evidence, that wouldn’t be presumptuous.
Temples’ 2014 debut ‘Sun Structures’ arrived with sky in its hair and the endorsements of Noel Gallagher and Johnny Marr ringing in its ears, putting the Kettering quartet at the forefront of an exciting new wave of British psych. Yet whereas the artists they were most obviously indebted to – think early Bowie and Pink Floyd, Nazz and T. Rex – employed subversive humour and acid-fried absurdity, Temples themselves were masters of surface-level psychedelia: less a state of mind, more a feat of engineering. - Barry Nicolson NME.com
Psychedelic mischief-making from the Kettering quartet on their sophomore album,. get the NME verdict on 'Volcano'
If Temples needed to prove that they were more than talented revivalists, then ‘Volcano’ should silence the doubters.
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