Volcano

"In contrast to contemporaries like MGMT or Tame Impala, whose music foregrounds the quirks and neuroses of its creators, Temples' music reveals little about the personalities behind it, other than the contents of their record collection and the breadth of their know-how. Frontman-producer James Bagshaw's carefully constructed simulacrum of psych-rock's gilded age was consummately done, but it felt more like the work of a highly skilled artisan than an all-seeing auteur ... Volcano' may rank as more of a technical progression than an artistic one, but it's no less impressive for that".

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"With their first album, Sun Structures, Temples tapped into the essence of what makes psychedelic pop so enchanting. The swirling sonic textures filled with chiming guitars and booming basslines, the trippy arrangements and moody melodies ... they combined into an aural experience on par with the best psych pop. When it came time to record their second album, Volcano, the band made some changes ... Volcano sounds like an album made to be played on a big stage at an outdoor festival. The sounds have been simplified, the choruses pumped up, and the vocals stripped of the reverb haze they were buried in. The arrangements are still fully colored-in, but they are sharper and less swathed in psych pop mystery ... Fans of the first album may be disappointed by the changes, especially since the band takes most of the psych out of its pop. Those who stick around will find that Volcano is a pretty good modern pop record".

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