The Temps - PARTY GATOR PURGATORY - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Carper Family - Old-Fashioned Gal [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/25/2013

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, p

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.