INTRODUCING: TEMPLES - After hearing the opening chords to infectious The Golden Throne (which is not, as I originally thought, a song about a very posh toilet) you will find yourself hooked on this neo-psychedelic duo.
Made up of hair, jeans and cheekbones, London based Temples are a relatively new band whose début gig was at this year’s Green Man festival. Thomas Edison Warmsley and James Edward Bagshaw (whose curly mop of hair lends to him more than a passing resemblance to a young Bob Dylan) were, until recently, of band The Moons, who have been playing support for Liam Gallagher’s band Beady Eye over the past few months.
There’s something relaxing but exhilarating about Warmsley and Bagshaw’s music – which is synthy, swoony and more than a little bit sixties. Temples are retro, but fresh, and utterly wonderful.
- Published on www.itno.co.uk on 2 October 2012.