TEMPLES - EXOTICO Price: €32.99 Format: LP Availability: Immediate Dispatch

Double LP
Standard weight black vinyl
Gatefold sleeve 300gsm (w/ matt machine varnish)

Produced by Sean Ono Lennon, Temples' 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 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. Equal parts cerebral and celestial, the result is a truly immersive body of work, fully affirming Kettering-bred Temples as one of today's most forward-thinking and endlessly inventive rock bands.

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Mixed by Dave Fridmann (Beach House, Spoon, The Flaming Lips) and mainly recorded at Lennon's studio in upstate New York, Exotico continues the collaboration begun on Temples' Lennon-produced 2020 single “Paraphernalia.”

Although Temples created portions of Exotico at their home studio back in England, their 12 days of sessions at Lennon's studio marked a significant departure from the self-contained approach they'd adhered to since their debut album Sun Structures (a 2014 release The Quietus likened to a series of “woozy daydreams that will embed themselves further in with each listen”).