Tempers - New Meaning [Opaque White Vinyl]

DAIS

£23.02

Format: LP, Opaque White Vinyl
Catalogue No.: DAIS193LPC3
Barcode: 011586674875
Release Date: 01 Apr 2022
Genre: Indie/Alternative

TRACKLISTING:
LP SIDE A:
A1. Nightwalking
A2. Unfamiliar
A3. Multitudes
A4. In And Out Of Hand
A5. It Falls Into You
LP SIDE B:
B1. Secrets And Lies
B2. Here Nor There
B3. Song Behind A Wall
B4. Carried Away
B5. Sightseeing

The New York City duo of Jasmine Golestaneh and Eddie Cooper aka Tempers specialize in a sleek strain of low-lit poetic synth-pop, the latest statement of which feels like the peak fruition of their elusive alchemy. With New Meaning, Tempers present an album about navigating the unknown, coping mechanisms and exploring the nature of choice. Its ten songs reflect on the creation of meaning as an access to freedom and purpose in times of transition and loss. Speculating on the transformative potential that exists alongside the grief of living in a world that is in an ongoing state of crisis.

This is distinctly nocturnal music, elegantly introspective and quietly intense, born of “living in a society that is still a dream of itself.” Tracks like “Unfamiliar,” “Here Nor There,” and “Song Behind A Wall” distill the Tempers template to icy pop perfection, drum machinery framed in shivering reverb, Golestaneh’s voice both ethereal and towering, simultaneously within and above. On other cuts, Golestaneh and Cooper’s production skews more evocatively greyscale, from new wave shadowplay (“Carried Away”) to depressive disco (“In And Out Of Hand”) to an elegy of hopeful resignation (“Secrets And Lies”). Cooper speaks of production ideas regarding “human architecture,” breathing life into the precision of electronics, and of melodic intervals “on the exact edge between major and minor, severe and sweet.”

New Meaning is a document of forking paths and fleeting transcendence, the liberation of instability and impermanence, of embracing “a constant state of becoming.” Ten anthems for a derailed age, fugitive and sympathetic, nightwalking through an “anguished city” towards a nameless future, poised for rebirth: transcendent state, as if having finally glimpsed beyond the pale: “When I have / when I have no name / my joy is blinding.”

• Tempers follow-up to 2019’s prescient Private Life
• An Arresting combination of sounds, the ethereal combined with sturdy 4/4 rhythms, hints of shoegaze, post-punk and synth pop in an LP worthy of late night drives, juke box plays and bedroom listens
• For fans of Cocteau Twins, Drab Majesty, Chromatics, Cigarettes After Sex, Boy Harsher, Kælan Mikla, Ritual Howls, and Black Celebration-era Depeche Mode

PRESS/ONLINE:
• “Sinuous, subterranean synthpop. Midnight blue and mysterious, Private Life exists in the darkest shadows. The Dystopian dance party Tempers created on this record is a gracefully glitchy, smoke-filled tangle of heady escapism and radiant retreat.” – Logic Fuzzy

• “(Tempers)’ moody, hypnotic melodies meld together the values of art, intellectualism and emotion through a deep, intense sound that feels as though it could score a David Lynch film.” – Forbes