Currently supporting a host of very notable artists including Suede, The Vaccines and The Rolling Stones, as well as grabbing the attention, and admiration, of other rock royalty, Temples are due to release their second single ‘Colours To Life‘ on the 24th June through Heavenly Records.
Their sound has been compared to everyone from The Beatles through to The Flaming Lips, The Coral and The Byrds, and they are currently being cited as part of a new wave of ‘Neo Psych’ musicians to watch over the course of the next year or so.
Following on from ‘Shelter Song‘, ‘Colours To Life’ is a rich, swirling smörgåsbord of psychedelic rock which, owing to the penchant that the band have for recording on retro equipment, sounds almost like the last forty years of music haven’t really happened; an exciting, heady, kaleidoscopic cocktail of guitars, bass and ‘Tomorrow Never Knows‘-esque drums, inflected with gentle washes of keyboard sounds which wonderfully assault the senses.
These virtues are beautifully topped with dreamy, multi tracked vocals – delivering catchy, lightly surreal lyrics which could have come straight out of Pink Floyd‘s ‘The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn‘, and give you the impression that this band wouldn’t sound out of place on the stage at London’s UFO club, back in the day.
A strangely euphoric record, and at a tempo one step beyond that of their debut single, this song lands just in time for the summer ( if we actually get one this year), urging you to stretch and shake the winter rigour from your limbs, reach your hands into the sky, and be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.
