Volcano

Volcano is the 2nd full-length album of Psychedelic Rock band from Kettering, Temples.
It was BBC’s Radio album of the day on March 9th and 6th on the UK Independent Albums Charts.

Volcano Singles were: “Certainty”, “Strange Or Be Forgotten”, “Born Into The Sunset”.

There are two bonus tracks one on the Japanese release: “Henry’s Cake” and another one at the FNAC release called “Fortune”.

Volcano came out via Fat Possum Records.
It was entirely self-produced in James’ own home (aka Pyramid Studio at Kettering). The decision to self-produce gave them full creative control over every step of the writing and recording process.

Temples at first place the spotlight on their sound (Melodies-Rhythm) and put aside the lyrical work for later. While working on lyrics Temples have created an album that’s entirely more open, in contrast with the more “mystical” and “secretive” lyrics of their first album Sun Structures.
Some of the songs on this record are more story based and there’s a timeline to them.

James Bagshaw said: “If there’s a sense of scale, it was really just a result of implementing a load of things that we didn’t know about the first time around. We didn’t even have a subwoofer to listen back to things that we did on Sun Structures, so there was nothing below 50Hz on that record. We didn’t even know those frequencies were there!”