Temples Makes a Return with Album ‘Hot Motion’

By JOHN DALY

Temples have returned and will release their first album since 2017, Hot Motion. The record is a throwback tip of the hat to the 1960s sound.

The well-loved British band drops the third album Hot Motion via ATO Records on Sept. 27. Hot Motion is the band’s debut on the well-known indie label. 

Temples has shared a performance video for the title track “Hot Motion,” a song the they say is about “the tensions of desire, dreams and nightmares.”

Listen to ‘Hot Motion’ on Soundcloud:

Temples to Perform at Desert Daze 

The band that takes listeners back to the late 1960s style psychedelic music will hit the road to promote Hot Motion and will tour in the fall. Temples will play summer festival dates across Europe and then play Desert Daze in Lake Perris, Calif., in October.

Temples – Hot Motion

Hot Motion is the follow-up album to Sun Structures released in 2014 and Volcano released in 2017. 

“Shelter Song” was the band’s first hit, in 2012. In the US Temples played The Tonight Show and Ellen.

Pre order here 

July 

05 – Barcelona, Spain @ Vida Festival

06 – Bristol, UK @ Astral Festival 

16 – Fribourg, Switzerland @ Festival Les Georges 

August

30 – Manchester, UK – Psych Fest @ The Ritz 

Temples Return 3 – Courtesy

September

06 – Miranda de Ebro, Spain @ Ebrovision Festival

October 

11-13 – Perris, CA, USA @ Desert Daze Festival

15 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent

17  – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Commonwealth Room

18 – Englewood, CO @ The Gothic Theatre

19 – Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf

21 – Dallas, TX @ The Granada Theatre

22 –  Austin, TX @ Stubbs

24 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall

25-27 – New Orleans, LA @ Voodoo Music Experience

28 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade

30 – Nashville, TN @ The Basement East

31-  Chicago, IL @ Metro

Temples at The Regent – Photo by Donna Balancia

November

02 – Detroit, MI @ The Shelter

04 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall

05 – Monreal, QC @ L’Astral

07 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall

08 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club

09 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair

10  – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer

16  – Cardiff, UK – Shimmer Sounds @ Tramshed

 17 –  Birmingham, UK @ Shimmer Sounds

18 – Amsterdam, Holland @ Paradiso Noord

19 – Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique Orangerie

20 – Paris, France @ Le Trabendo

 22 – Zurich, Switzerland @ Mascotte

23 – Bologna, Italy @ Locomotiv

24 – Milan, Italy @ Circolo Magnolia

25 – Prague, Czech Republic @  Roxy

26 – Berlin, Germany @ Festsaal

28 – Hamburg, Germany @ Gruenspan

29 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Loppen

30 – Cologne, Germany @ Luxor 

December 

02 – Brighton, UK  @ Komedia

04 – Newcastle, UK @ Riverside

06 – Nottingham, UK @ Rescue Rooms

07 – Southampton, UK @ Engine Rooms

08 – London, UK @ O2 Shepherds Bush Empire

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