Temples

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Temples (2014)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Sun Structures
  DE 47 02/28/2014 (1 week)
  AT 69 02/28/2014 (1 week)
  CH 24 02/16/2014 (3 weeks)
  UK 7th 02/22/2014 (4 weeks)
  US 163 03/01/2014 (1 week)
Volcano
  DE 81 03/10/2017 (1 week)
  CH 39 03/12/2017 (1 week)
  UK 23 03/10/2017 (1 week)
Hot motion
  CH 80 06.10.2019 (1 week)
  UK 51 10/10/2019 (1 week)

Temples is a British rock band whose music can be assigned to the genre of psychedelic rock and which is based on the pop of the 1960s.

description

The band Temples from Kettering in England was founded in 2012 by singer and rhythm guitarist James Bagshaw and bassist Thomas Walmsley. Keyboardist and guitarist Adam Smith and drummer Samuel Toms joined them later.

To date (March 2017) the Temples have released two studio albums, two EPs and a few singles. Her debut album Sun Structures was released in 2014 and reached number seven on the British music charts . The band is under contract with the London record label Heavenly Records and appears internationally as a support act and as a headliner . In 2013, Noel Gallagher of Oasis and Johnny Marr of The Smiths named the Temples "the best new band in the UK". Gallagher criticized in 2013 that the band was underrepresented on the popular British music channel BBC Radio 1 .

history

Performance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival , 2014

The band originally formed in mid-2012 as a home studio project. Bagshaw and Warmsley had known each other for a long time as part of rival youth gangs in their hometown of Kettering. The duo later played in the Northampton band The Moons and The Lightning Seeds . Bagshaw and Warmsley posted four self-produced tracks on YouTube that caught the attention of Jeff Barrett, founder of the Heavenly Records record label. With him they released the debut single Shelter Song in November 2012. The band initially played at major music festivals in Great Britain and Europe. In October 2013 she toured the UK and toured Europe, North America and Australia in 2014. First appearances on US television took place in 2014 on the late-night show The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and The Ellen DeGeneres Show . In 2015 the band released two new songs live and confirmed that they are working on a new album.

Discography

Albums

  • Sun Structures (February 5, 2014)
  • Volcano (March 3, 2017)
  • Hot Motion (September 27, 2019)

Remix albums

  • Sun Restructured (November 10, 2014)

EPs

  • Shelter Song EP (July 7, 2014)
  • Mesmerise Live EP (September 16, 2014)

Singles

  • Shelter Song / Prisms (November 12, 2012)
  • Colors to Life / Ankh (June 24, 2013)
  • Keep in the Dark / Jewel of Mine Eye (October 7, 2013)
  • Mesmerise (November 20, 2013)
  • Move with the Season (November 3, 2014)

Web links

Commons : Temples  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: Germany - Austria - Switzerland - UK - US
  2. ↑ Temples in the music magazine Tracks ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at arte @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
  3. ↑ Drowned in Sound meets Temples from April 5, 2013
  4. ↑ Noel Gallagher criticizes BBC Radio 1 for ignoring Temples and Jagwar Ma