Last night, Kettering quartet TEMPLES sold out The Roxy with an evening of repackaged British psych-revival that would have made Marc Bolan and his hair very proud. Sporting vintage perms and swathed in reverb, Temples kept the audience spellbound with songs from their album Sun Structures – a rolling atmosphere of hippy-dippy harmonies entwined with a frothy acid repertoire. Temples do the trippy mimicry well. Very well. Their performance of kaleidoscopic fuzz that trickled from their 60′s and 70′s palettes was well received by fans who yearned for a rebirth of such periods of mystery and hallucination. There was certainly a mood to their show, a chemical froth in green and blue lights and velvety poetry that could only be British in nature. Temples are from an ilk that are magically futuristic in retrograde – their warm psychadelic tracks blurred our sonic landscape on Sunset Blvd with LSD dripping from keys and soaring guitar riffs that prove these songs were written to expand minds. Closing the night with the gorgeous hazy “Shelter Song” in encore, Temples left us feeling like last night we stayed up late in a dream.

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