Sun Structures

Sun Structures is the debut album by British quartet, Temples. Released by Heavenly Recordings and [PIAS] Australia, the album will be unleashed to the world on 7 February 2014. The 12-track album was self-produced by the band’s James Bagshaw and mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer (The Mars Volta, Muse & Franz Ferdinand). The Kettering four-piece's music is a mix of scuzzy glam stomp, dreamy, 12-string-drenched folk-rock, droning psych and more – all given a 2014 spin. The band recorded their first single, ‘Shelter Song’, in 2012 & put it on the internet, and set into motion an unstoppable chain of events that eventually saw them signed to Heavenly Recordings. The 7" now regularly fetches upwards of £100 on eBay. Quickly, they became an accomplished live prospect, playing gigs up and down the UK, hitting the festival circuit and even sharing a bill with The Rolling Stones at London's Hyde Park in July 2013. As well as The Stones, the band have caught the attention of a number of music's biggest names. Johnny Marr has declared himself a fan, Robert Wyatt professed his interest in a letter to the band's management, Suede invited them on tour and Noel Gallagher came to see them perform in London. It's a record that's destined to set out the band's stall as Britain's premier retro-futurists, with influences ranging from '60s psychedelia to Motown, glam, Krautrock and baggy, all viewed through a very modern kaleidoscope – and always keeping the song at the heart of it all. "