TEMPLES

JEREMY ALLEN

Exotico ATO Sean Lennon-assisted return to form for Midlands psych rockers. Kettering has never exactly been an exploding hotbed of musical exploration, though the East Midlands market town is where James Bagshaw and Thomas Warmsley formed Temples in 2012, making a beeline for success shortly afterwards when their debut album, Sound Structures, peaked at No.7 in the UK album charts in 2014. Sadly, follow-ups Volcano (2017) and the tuneful but slightly inconsequential Hot Motion (2019) failed to scale the same artistic or commercial peaks as the band’s debut. More promising was their 2020 single Paraphernalia, a mélange of intoxicating Turkish psych and French touch influences, which was recorded after a propitious hook-up with Sean Ono Lennon. “They’re a long way sonically from Kettering now.” Lennon returns for this, the band’s…

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