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Cat: ATO 0502CAS. Rel: 30 Sep 19
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Side 1 - Track 1. Hot Motion Side 1 - Track 2. You're Either On Something Side 1 - Track 3. Holy Horses Side 1 - Track 4. The Howl Side 1 - Track 5. Context Side 2 - Track 1. The Beam Side 2 - Track 2. Not Quite The Same Side 2 - Track 3. Atomise Side 2 - Track 4. It's All Coming Out Side 2 - Track 5. Step Down Side 2 - Track 6. Monuments

When is a psychedelic rock album not a psychedelic rock album? Anyone who has quickly scrawled answer-on-postcard reads "when it's Temples" can go straight to the top of the class. Evidently you have been paying attention over the course of the British three piece's last two full length records. It's not that things don't sound pretty out there and trippy. All the elements to achieve that are here, but the accessibility is ramped up to the level of a pop album, with arrangements owing more to traditional song craft than anything particularly experimental. Don't read that as criticism, though. Tracks like "Not Quite The Same" are huge, proud, instantly catchy but far from obvious numbers. "You're Either On Something" thumps and lunges through its various permutations, "Atomise" pares everything back, luring us in, before opening up into a frantic, grunge-metal guitar line. We can only imagine the fun they had recording it.