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| 3.5 great | SimpleM | March 5th 17 |
Temples come back with their sophomore release Volcano, with what sounds like a fancy dinner party hosted by The Beatles & Animal Collective; serving up eclectic psych pop with a charismatic flavour.
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| 2.6 average | Erwann S. STAFF | January 30th 24 |
For dreamy'n'psychy synthstravaganzza, this is pretty stale.
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| 3.5 great | Gene Gol-Jonsson CONTRIBUTOR | October 13th 21 |
This transition into purely trippy pop is only a partial success for Temples, seeing as their song-writing is still strong, but the production often compresses and overamplifies the booming sound of the songs to near unlistenability. I really had to play with the equaliser settings on this one, so it didn't burn my ears out.
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| 2.5 average | Antonius | May 6th 17 |
Temples follow the exact same road as Tame Impala did with Currents 2 years earlier. From the neo-psychedelic/retro rock ambience of Sun Structures, they enter a trendy trippy/poppy bubble with the aim to expand their audience. This is achieved mainly with the heavy reliance on synthesizers and over-poppiness, something that I might have liked if tracks such as "In My Pocket", "Oh The Saviour", "Open Air", "All Join In" [and others] were not there. From all these, I would recommend the single "Certainty" and "(I Want to Be Your) Mirror". Personally, I would keep "Mystery of Pop" a pleasant track and probably a leftover from the debut and "Strange or Be Forgotten".
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| 3.0 good | ZairoN | October 11th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | MrGlass | September 27th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Ebola | March 19th 18 |
| 3.5 great | nateiv | December 18th 17 |
| 3.0 good | doqtor | November 12th 17 |
| 2.0 poor | Jan555 | October 8th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | mvtante | September 2nd 17 |
| 3.0 good | bharry | August 15th 17 |
| 3.0 good | PaabL | April 21st 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Maag | April 16th 17 |
| 3.6 great | Rudy K. EMERITUS | March 17th 17 |
| 2.5 average | helti | March 10th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rizzo44 | March 2nd 17 |
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