Akin to Dutch wordplay-und-beats maestros King Bee, we're back by dope demand. . .
Busy, us? Aye, we sure are. Hot on the heels of our killer
This Beat Is Necrotronic release (not got a copy yet?
Do something about it) sees
Tempelhof's first album
We Were Not There For The Beginning, We Won't Be There For The End, and
what a bona fide stone-cold killer of a release this is. Honestly, it's the
tits. For those of you not familiar with Tempelhof, they're a duo from Mantova, Italy, and their stock trade is master purveyors of fine-ass electronic post-rock. Reference points? Well, we suppose they
might sound
a bit like M83 without the Tangerine Dream bits,
sort of like Maps,
rather like The Album Leaf with TV On The Radiohead-ish vocals.
But, y'know, that just does them an injustice really. Tempelhof are carving out a finely-shaped niche of their own thankyouverymuch. Taking inspiration from Bologna film library archives (
they regularly perform live soundtracks of the black-and-white and crudely-coloured early-modern cinema experiments), loneliness, solitude and William Burroughs, the album features ten two tracks of lush downtempo beauty. All tracks display Tempelhof at their best: downpours of cymbal-like hiss and mournful keys, shuffling beats, low impassioned - dynamic but not overwrought - vocals, with an array of crashing rhythms and mechanical shifts and slices. Subtle, effortless and, frankly, awesome.
And guess what?
You could be the lucky owner of this album if you pre-order the little sucker at the Distraction site! Wowee, and indeed, zowee. Their
album page has a jukebox on it, which means that you can check out all of the tracks in full (no 30 or 60 second previews here, matey), but here's one in particular that we dig. It's called Berlin and if you don't like it, well, take yourself of this mailing list right now because we don't understand people like you.
And the cost of the album if you pre-order? Just £6.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, and £8.99 for the rest of the planet. At such a measly pittance, we are surely spoiling you.
We still have copies of
Necro Deathmort's This Beat Is Necrotronic that are just
begging to be held, heard and enjoyed. Mosey on down down deeper and down to
their page for the gen for it's a behemoth, to be sure. And we still have copies available of
d_rradio's
Leaves album on
Symbolic Interaction, but not many, so now is the time to stump up the coin to indulge yourself in gorgeous drone if you haven't already done so (by the way,
Tears of Abraham's Sacrificing the Text is now sold out, and we have one - opened but unplayed - copy left of
d_rradio's self-titled offering; the first person who PayPal's us four quid gets it).
That's about it, and remember, if you don't have fun tonight, at least Wang Chung tonight.
Easy,
distraction.x.