{"id":2524,"date":"2013-03-26T22:11:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T22:11:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-26T22:11:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T22:11:24","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/?p=2524","title":{"rendered":"Here Is Your Temple &#8211; The debut EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1lHK_fPJVhY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here Is Your Temple invite you into their theoretical world of fears, obsessions, love, hate and progress. Acting as distant observers in occupancy of a Universe separate to our own, this debut EP is a veritable brocade of heavy, dreamy, alt-pop that channels the spirits of Nico and Beach House (while paying homage in their own way to the likes of Depeche Mode and Fleetwood Mac) before adding their own layer of sedate gloss. On this debut EP, the Swedish 5 piece (completed by<br \/>\nvocalist Emily McWilliam, guitarist Andreas Hourdakis, drummer Olle Nyman, bassist Ille Borg and Mikael Svensson on keys) look to cinematic works for inspiration.<br \/>\nFrom the first synth experiments in Tarkovsky\u2019s Stalker, the cut up sound<br \/>\ntracks of Godard to Vangelis&#8217; Blade Runner, Here Is Your Temple value their music\u2019s ability to conjure stark imagery and often use a back drop of Kenneth Anger\u2019s silent movies in their writing process. This becomes evident as the listener wades through the swirling synth of opening track, and forthcoming single, So High. Here Is Your Temple immediately set about demonstrating their possession of that very special transportative quality that inducts you into their thick, icy, Scandinavian surround.<br \/>\nMcWilliam\u2019s vocals shimmer, melt and glisten across wildly expansive<br \/>\nsoundscapes.  So High\u2019s pulsing bass line, icy underlying synths and chiming guitar punctuation soon make way for the world-weary Once Rich before Say<br \/>\nHey fills the air with its swelling, silver-plated Folk crescendo. It builds like<br \/>\nBoxer-era The National with a lyrical refrain (\u2018hey, what could we have done to make this go away?\u2019) that could have been plucked straight from the lips of Matt Berninger.<br \/>\nBig Way, by contrast, shows the band\u2019s more extroverted side before closing track<br \/>\nDaniel broods along a glitter-flecked road to its climax.<br \/>\nIf Here Is Your Temple are of their own universe, then they represent their<br \/>\nown 5 planet solar system, one that pushes, pulls, implodes and explodes,<br \/>\nstriving to find balance in the space in between. Just like black matter, the<br \/>\nnoise in between is equally important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here Is Your Temple invite you into their theoretical world of fears, obsessions, love, hate and progress. Acting as distant observers in occupancy of a Universe separate to our own, this debut EP is a veritable brocade of heavy, dreamy, alt-pop that channels the spirits of Nico and Beach House (while paying homage in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press_releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}