Temples - Hot Motion - VINYL LP

Black vinyl LP pressing. 2013 from the veteran Indie/DIY band featuring Lou Barlow, Jason Loewenstein, and Bob D'Amico. Defend Yourself marks a return to the self-recorded DIY ethos of early Sebadoh albums (Sebadoh III, Bakesale), and material from the Defend Yourself sessions has been hailed as commensurate with Sebadoh's finest moments.

Vinyl LP pressing. The Temple was first erected around 2005 in honor of doom metal, and the profound and powerful emotions the genre endeavors to convey. On account of local metalheads being largely ignorant and unsupportive of doom at the time, the beginning was downright tough on the band. A demo was nonetheless recorded before other commitments sent The Temple into a long hiatus. Several years later the band was resolutely revived by chief songwriter and lyricist, Father Alex. With new members recruited and the lineup solidified, momentum was gained, gigs were scheduled and an EP of older songs was self-released in early 2015, immediately grabbing the attention of I Hate. Fast forward to 2016 and the debut album, Forevermourn, was released on CD. The music - oftentimes epic and melodic, not to mention earnestly and keenly poignant - was recorded live in an abandoned music hall over the course of one week. The production allows the lugubrious yet regal atmosphere of the songs to seep through the speakers and into the hearts and minds of the congregation of devotees The Temple is sure to attract.

The New York City duo of Jasmine Golestaneh and Eddie Cooper aka Tempers specialize in a sleek strain of low-lit poetic synth-pop, the latest statement of which feels like the peak fruition of their elusive alchemy. With their self-produced New Meaning, Tempers present an album about navigating the unknown, coping mechanisms and exploring the nature of choice. It's ten songs reflect on the creation of meaning as an access to liberation in times of transition and loss, speculating on the transformative potential that exists alongside the grief of living in a world that is in an ongoing state of crisis.This is distinctly nocturnal music, elegantly introspective and quietly intense, born of Inchliving in a society that is still a dream of itself.Inch Tracks like InchUnfamiliar,Inch InchNightwalking,Inch and InchSightseeingInch distill The Tempers template to icy pop perfection, drum machinery framed in shivering reverb, Golestaneh's voice both ethereal and towering, simultaneously within and above. Cooper speaks of production ideas regarding Inchhuman architecture,Inch breathing life into the precision of electronics, and of melodic intervals Inchon the exact edge between major and minor, severe and sweet.Inch On other cuts, Golestaneh and Cooper's production skews more evocatively greyscale, from new wave shadowplay (InchCarried AwayInch) to depressive disco (InchIn And Out Of HandInch) to an elegy of hopeful resignation (InchSecrets And LiesInch). The album's themes are echoed in the evocative cover photo, Lost Hotel (2016) by Beijing-based photography artist Chen Wei.New Meaning is a document of forking paths and fleeting transcendence, the celebration of instability and impermanence, of embracing Incha constant state of becoming.Inch Ten anthems for a derailed age, fugitive and sympathetic, nightwalking through an Inchanguished cityInch towards a nameless future, poi