Description
Produced by Sean Ono Lennon, Templesrsquo fourth full length album takes place in a mystical setting, an impossibly utopic island dreamed up by singer guitarist James Bagshaw, bassist Tom Walmsley, keyboardist guitarist Adam Smith, and drummer Rens Ottink.With its resplendent collage of psychedelia and Krautrock and timebending dream pop, lsquoExoticorsquo brings that world to life in crystalline detail, all while exploring an entire spectrum of existential themes impermanence, mortality, our connection with nature and the wild immensity of the mind. Equal parts cerebral and celestial, the result is a truly immersive body of work, fully affirming Ketteringbred Temples as one of todayrsquos most forwardthinking and endlessly inventive rock bands.Mixed by Dave Fridmann Beach House, Spoon, The Flaming Lips and mainly recorded at Lennonrsquos studio in upstate New York, lsquoExoticorsquo continues the collaboration begun on Templesrsquo Lennonproduced 2020 single lsquoParaphernaliarsquo.Although Temples created portions of lsquoExoticorsquo at their home studio back in England, their 12 days of sessions at Lennonrsquos studio marked a significant departure from the selfcontained approach theyrsquod adhered to since their debut album lsquoSun Structuresrsquo a 2014 release The Quietus likened to a series of ldquowoozy daydreams that will embed themselves further in with each listenrdquo.Available to independent retailers on pink opaque double vinyl in 300gsm gatefold sleeve with matt machine varnish.