let me just say that this band sounds so great live... watching this from a computer simply does not compare to what they are capable of, live. They're one of the best bands I've seen, live
These folks are so super talented and a joy/experience to listen to. I love how the passion just seeps through each performance and album. Temples are 10/10 and still far underrated.
(in random order...) 1. The War on Drugs 2. Band of Horses 3. Dawes 4. Bon Iver 5. Of Monsters and Men 6. Alabama Shakes 7. Gaslight Anthem 8. Phantogram 9. The Orwells 10. Temples 11. The Tallest Man on Earth 12. Eliot Sumner 13. Houndmouth 14. The Head and the Heart 15. Jake Bugg 16. Deer Tick 17. The Districts 18. Shakey Graves19. Cage the Elephant20. Young the GiantPutting together a list of great YOUNG/NEW rock bands; roughly around for 1 - 6 years / 1 - 3 albums or so; these are just general guidelines, but meant to exclude bands like Arcade Fire and Kings of Leon who are terrific but a little too old for the list. Please let me know who you think should be added, thanks. I will argue with you if they aren't rock bands, great, or young/new. Don't tell me you just discovered an awesome new band called The Pixies. You're way too late. This is the list so far... (order is random)
+Richard Baisden Jr. (ZENETH) --- As I say at the top of the list.... IN RANDOM ORDER. As for Mac DeMarco, I will check it out. It sounds familiar but I need to check out. Thanks! Best.
You know, I keep finding myself wanting to like this band better, but feeling so-so about their sound. Then watching their show was kind of pulled along by it, they've obviously got this distinctive vibe. I also really like the fact that they jam, which I didn't know before. Okay, on board for the time being...
I agree with your assessment of Temples, I'm pretty much in the same boat. They have a few songs I really love, but overall its just meh. Check out The Spyrals out of San Francisco, pretty much the same genre, but more vibrant and alive.
What bothered me more with this band was the apparent attitude they showed towards everybody. They're writing some decent music, but their front man acts incredibly arrogant. Maybe it's just supposed to be a facade, but it's an annoying one to me....
Yeah. I don't know. I've just seen a couple interviews (one with Nardwuar) where he just acted so terribly bored and uninterested, and it just gave of a snobby impression at first. Still good music though.
Mark Lopez, that session just happened late last week! We will get to it soon, we promise, but we record a lot of sessions and it takes us time to get through it all. Thanks for your patience!
Awesome band and good performance, but the guitars were slightly too loud and the bass and the keys were a tad too low and the vocals would have been better with a touch more reverb (esp. for the harmonies) the drums were dead on for levels and clarity though.
Maybe it's just me, but their recorded songs sound better. It sounds even more alternative live, which may not be a bad thing, but it's also not the same, somehow...
They're a psychedelia band which in most cases will always sound different live then recorded because the record adds all these little details which make it psychedelic.
+jero han i saw them yesterday life, and honestly i had the same thought, but it is not true, he sing almost better in the live versions than in the studio..
Good but so far from the greatest (pink floyd and others), I hope that this band can improve their self and will give us another glorious progressive and psicodelic era. My best wishes.
I'm all for groups updating classic genres to fit their aesthetic and overall sound, but this isn't even that they're delivering carbon copies of old psychedelic classic rock cliches, but in an uncreative, generic, and uninspired fashion AND taking a step backwards all the while looking bored while doing it...it leaves a bad aftertaste. What ever happened to a good tasteful solo thrown in just at the right moment? oh, that's right. Songs are cut down to 3-4 minutes for radio time throwing any notion away of true classic rock making it's way back into the popular consciousness. This group (to me at least) comes off as a group that would like to think they are on the same spectrum of great classic rock but do not fully embrace it.
4 tracks on the new album are over 5 minutes long, and one of them is 6.5 minutes, so plenty of room for solos. For anyone liking this check out Tom Vek
Temples are cool, but they're just the frontman. Why doesn't he get a drum machine and loop the rest, wouldn't have to share the budget and the groupies then.
i was thinking the same thing. drummer is pretty basic. and in some songs the "rhythm guitar" isn't even really playing on the jams. i get the other guitar on depth of sound. he does play keyboard though
