NORTH AMERICAN TOUR BEGINS 10/11 AT DESERT DAZE FESTIVAL
Photo credit: Laura allard Fleishcl
Listen to “You’re Either on Something” HERE
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(Toronto, ON – August 6, 2019) – Temples have today shared “You’re Either On Something”, the latest track from their forthcoming third album, Hot Motion – to be released worldwide on ATO Records on September 27th. The band will begin their North American tour on October 11, starting with Desert Daze Festival. “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.”
Talking about the track, singer James Bagshaw says:
“I’m really proud of “You’re Either On Something” lyrically because I feel deeply connected with the words – they’re so truthful. On that track, I can hear influences of stuff that I listened to when I was growing up. There’s almost a nostalgia to that track, even though it’s very forward-looking.”
Hot Motion, which follows their acclaimed albums Sun Structures (2014) & Volcano(2017), is Temples’ debut release for renowned label ATO Records and the band recently unveiled the title track from the record. Listen to “Hot Motion” here.
With their third, brilliantly crafted and ingeniously intricate, album Temples have found new ground and a deeper, darker creative well. A glorious technicolour infuses much of the album but there is a David Lynch-ian undertone that adds a gravity to Hot Motion‘s soaring moments. Fizzing with ideas, bursting with kinetic energy and balancing an immediate impact with an enduring, timeless intensity, Hot Motion is a cohesive album in a time of stand alone singles. Temples have created an aural tapestry for dark days; an inviting and warm sanctuary away from the daily churn of information overload. It’s an album of complexity, crafted for repeat listening.
Renowned for their mezmerising live performances a Temples have also announced a U.K. and European headline tour in the early winter, a number of festival shows over the summer and an extensive U.S. tour in the autumn.
The full list of dates are as follows:
8/30- Manchester Psych Fest @ The Ritz – MANCHESTER
9/6 – Ebrovision Festival – MIRANDA DE EBRO
10/11 – 10/13 – Perris, CA @ Desert Daze Festival
10/15 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
10/17 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Commonwealth Room
10/18 – Englewood, CO @ The Gothic Theatre
10/19 – Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf
10/21 – Dallas, TX @ The Granada Theatre
10/22 – Austin, TX @ Stubbs
10/24 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
10/25 – 10/27 – New Orleans, LA @ Voodoo Music Experience
10/28 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
10/30 – Nashville, TN @ The Basement East
10/31 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
11/2 – Detroit, MI @ The Shelter
11/4 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
11/5 – Montreal, QC @ L’Astral
11/7 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
11/8 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
11/9 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
11/10 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
11/12 – Locomotiv – BOLOGNA
11/15 – Shimmer Sounds Festival – CARDIFF
11/17 – Shimmer Sounds Festival – BIRMINGHAM
11/19 – Botanique Orangerie – BRUSSELS
11/20 – Trabendo – PARIS
11/22 – Mascotte – ZURICH
11/24 – Magnolia – MILAN
11/25 – Roxy – PRAGUE
11/26 – Festsaal Kreuzberg – BERLIN
11/28 – Grunspan – HAMBURG
11/29 – Loppen – COPENHAGEN
11/30 – Luxor – COLOGNE
12/2 – Komedia – BRIGHTON
12/4 – Riverside – NEWCASTLE
12/6 – Rescue Rooms – NOTTINGHAM
12/7 – Engine Rooms – SOUTHAMPTON
12/8 – Shepherd’s Bush Empire – LONDON
Hot Motion can be pre-ordered HERE.
Past praise for Temples:
An impossibly irresistible proposition – 4/5 Q Magazine
Temples aren’t stuck in the past. They’ve glimpsed the future – 4/5 Mojo
The album is so full of ideas – 4/5 The Times of London
Erupting throughout with ideas and ambition – 4/5 Evening Standard
Overloaded with hooks and harmonies and charged with rhythmic intent – 4/5 Daily Telegraph
(An) album chock full of references to their sources, but elegantly reformed and future-proofed – The Quietus
..an enjoyable, hairy answer to the question of what ELO might have sounded like had they been produced by Joe Meek. – The Guardian
TEMPLES are: James Bagshaw (lead vocals / guitar), Thomas Walmsley (bass, vocals) & Adam Smith (keyboards, guitar, vocals)
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