THERE’S been a hell of a lot of toffee for this Kettering four-piece band with no less than Noel Gallagher leading the plaudits and espousing the trio’s trip into psychedelia. Well, sorry, Noel – can’t see it myself.
The 12 tracks do indeed twinkle with things the way they were, but it’s almost as if Temples have morphed into their own tribute band with their debut album. Sun Structures is finely crafted, multi-layered, and so resonant of an age of kaftans and candles, beads and baubles. The whole effect is like being marooned in a subterranean groovy-cave schmoozing with the likes of the Monkees, Sonny Bono and Simon Dupree with the cave walls flickering to the movement of multi-coloured phlegm placed on a slide and shown on an overhead projector.
Two tracks alone – the beefy A Question Isn’t Answered and The Guesser – rise above the fey fare. Otherwise, I won’t worship at these Temples.
• Temples play at the Stylus venue in Leeds on February 28 as part of a UK headline tour
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