Matthew & the Atlas - Temple - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

On his latest record, Matt travelled to the famous Rockfield Studios, recording 11 tracks, live to tape over just a few days. Here worked with Kev Jones with an aim to capture the true magic that is Matt's vocal and song-writing, and the enchanting auditory treat that just one man and a guitar can produce. Album Tracks 1. Many Times 2. Blackwater Valley 3. Change Coming 4. Into Your Arms 5. Faded Out 6. Wild Rose 7. Standing Here 8. Pine Grove 9. Same As I Used to Be 10. Time on My Hands 11. Everything Is Golden

New Zealand's The Temple, an aural entity comprised of P.K. (guitars, bass, vocals) and J.W. (drums, lyrics), play viscerally morphing and shape-shifting death / black metal of an esoteric nature. Their self-titled debut album is an impenetrable sonic monolith that encompasses six immense tracks of tectonic shifting, inharmonious, honed and focused metal of crushing weight, searing ambience and immense magnitude. With the sprawling audial tapestry The Temple have laid out with their debut, the conveyance of this vision is one reflected through death worship and an invocation of plague, war, misery, and the cosmic apocalypse channeled through the spirit of misanthropic Gnosticism. Album Tracks 1. Prophecy Omega 2. Hell Incarcerate 3. Martyr of the Tyrant 4. Pale Horse of Pestilence 5. Wolf in the Vortex 6. Void of Scars

Produced by Sean Ono Lennon and mixed by Dave Fridmann (Beach House, Spoon, The Flaming Lips), Temples fourth full-length album takes place in an impossibly utopic island dreamed up by the four band members. With it's resplendent collage of psychedelia, krautrock and time-bending dream-pop, Exotico 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. Album Tracks 1. Liquid Air 2. Gamma Rays 3. Exotico 4. Sultry Air 5. Cicada 6. Oval Stones 7. Slow Days 8. Crystal Hall 9. Head in the Clouds 10. Giallo 11. Inner Space 12. Meet Your Maker 13. Time Is a Light 14. Fading Actor 15. Afterlife 16. Movements of Time