Temperatures

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[UM004]   TEMPERATURES - “EKSRA“ LP

Temperatures are the London-based duo of Peter Blundell: bass/voice and James Dunn: drums/synth

Blundell’s rumbling delayed bass runs against Dunn’s bursting drums that simultaneously trigger an unruly ARP 2600. Vocals are both muffled and shouting at times and eventually end up getting buried under a landslide of sounds. Thanks to their instinctive but thoughtful approach to noise, Temperatures manage to express a suffocating sense of alienation as well as today’s over-communication resulting in a helpless lack of communication; but “Eksra” strikes most for its original and refreshing sound, far from the stale cliche that noise so often falls into. Recorded live with no added overdubs in a makeshift studio in London in January 2009, “Eksra” was entirely improvised. Recommended if you like: Throbbing Gristle bootlegs, Sunny Murray, Dead C, Lighting Bolt.

“One of London’s most spasmodically captivating outfits”   Byron Coley - Thurston Moore, Arthur Magazine

“It’s really this dark-hole of noise-playing. It’s actually really distinctive in a way amongst that genre, because there’s a lot of standardized tropes in the noise genre that people fall into– which I don’t mind, I like the idea that this is traditional way of playing in that world, but it’s always cool to hear something like this where you can’t really slot it into those things”   Thurston Moore’s Favorite New Band, Pitchfork

“Bass, drums, and synth as though the instruments had only just been discovered out of an archaeological dig”  Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector

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Temperatures killing it in their summer outfit @ Tinderbox Festival, June 2011