The new album, Exotico, by British psychedelic band Temples is out today via ATO Records alongside a new official music video for the song "Oval Stones." The video was directed by guitarist/lead singer James Bagshaw with additional footage courtesy of Molly Daniel, Anna Gudbrands, Elif Yanya, Lauren Park, and Nathan McLaren Stewart.
"'The Oval Stones' video is about being nostalgic and reminiscing," says Bagshaw. "The video has snapshots of our own gigs and days off on tour which we have many fond memories of! Often we find when we are driving we talk about all kinds of things and it’s a good excuse to take a drive down memory lane."
WATCH "OVAL STONES" OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
STREAM/PURCHASE EXOTICO
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Most recent praise for TEMPLES: "A stunning effort all-around, it is a pleasure to have Temples back, the prospect of where they can go from here is one of excitement and thrill." - CLASH (8/10) "Their finest hour so far." - Shindig (4/5) "Drift in." - Classic Rock (8/10) "A triumph." - Q (4/5) "Catchy as hell blend of their own rhapsodic psychedelia." - Evening Standard (4/5) "Unabashedly reaches back to White Album Beatles and early Pink Floyd, with a stately beat and ascending chords shared by guitars, keyboards and what might be a string section, in a mix as happily bleary as the situation." - New York Times
Exotico was produced by Sean Ono Lennon and mixed by GRAMMY® Award-winner Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, MGMT). The album has been heralded over the last several months with the release of three singles, "Gamma Rays," "Cicada," and "Afterlife." All three songs are available for streaming at all DSPs, while videos for "Afterlife" and "Gamma Rays" are currently streaming on YouTube.
LISTEN TO “AFTERLIFE” WATCH "AFTERLIFE" OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
LISTEN TO “GAMMA RAYS” WATCH "GAMMA RAYS" OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
LISTEN TO “CICADA”
The band will be celebrating Exotico's release with a North American headline tour getting underway June 6 at Washington DC's The Black Cat and then traveling through the end of the month. Highlights include such venues as Brooklyn, NY's Elsewhere, San Francisco, CA's Great American Music Hall, and Los Angeles, CA's Teragram Ballroom. The North American run follows a sold-out leg of small UK club shows to road-test the new album. Support for the tour will be provided by Chicago psych-rockers Post Animal. For complete details and ticket information, please visit www.templestheband.com/live.
Recently praised by Shindig! for sounding “like Temples, but Temples with a newfound confidence,” Exotico marks the band’s most far-reaching collection thus far, a 16-track panoramic musical travelogue set beyond the horizon on an impossibly utopic island where every song serves as a different stop along the atoll, from beaches with azure blue waters to forest canopies enveloped in rare birdsong. Recorded in studios in London, Brighton, and Worcestershire, songs like “Afterlife” and “Oval Stones” see Temples – with additional multi-instrumental and vocal accompaniment from Lennon as well as extra vocals from Charlotte Kemp Muhl (The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger) – painting visionary new vistas with cascading melodic waterfalls, contemplative lyrical exploration, and an imaginative creative wanderlust unlike anything previously heard in the band’s already ambitious body of work.
Temples is: James Bagshaw (guitar, vocals) Thomas Walmsley (bass guitar, backing vocals), Adam Smith (keyboards, rhythm guitar, backing vocals), and Rens Ottink (drums and percussion). | 
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