New Meaning, by TEMPERS

New Meaning

by TEMPERS

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curious82 Just *listen* to it! Why would you rather want to *read* how it sounds anyway? Favorite track: Secrets and Lies.

readymadeexcuse Unleveling fields of soberness and light gleaming. Please break into my golden fortress of dismal happenings. Favorite track: Secrets and Lies.

goathoof Spellbinding from the first note, no escape when the vocals hit. This album is hypnotically melancholy, strolling through abanadoned streets in the empty cities in our head. We move and sway, propelled by hazy dreams and neon wishes. To be honest, this may be my most played record for the entire year. Each track offers a complete journey of tempered ups and downs that is both relaxing and fulfilling. Golestaneh's voice is a manifestation of a soothing spectre. I am allured by every word. Favorite track: Nightwalking.

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1.	Nightwalking 03:35	buy track
2.	Unfamiliar 04:02	buy track
3.	Multitudes 03:59	buy track
4.	In and Out of Hand 03:57	buy track
5.	It Falls Into You 03:32	buy track
6.	Secrets and Lies 04:18	buy track
7.	Here Nor There 03:14	buy track
8.	Song Behind a Wall 04:12	buy track
9.	Carried Away 03:57	buy track
10.	Sightseeing 04:01	buy track

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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 their self-produced 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 liberation 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,” “Nightwalking,” and “Sightseeing” 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. 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.” 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”). The album’s themes are echoed in the evocative cover photo, Lost Hotel (2016) by Beijing-based photographic artist Chen Wei.

New Meaning is a document of forking paths and fleeting transcendence, the celebration 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.”

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released April 1, 2022

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TEMPERS New York, New York

Tempers is a New York based project of singer and songwriter Jasmine Golestaneh, melting low-lit poetic synth-pop with hints of techno, shoegaze and post-punk.

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Nov 14

Kiff, Saal

Aarau, Switzerland
Nov 16

Alter Schlachthof

Dresden, Germany
Nov 20

Rockhouse

Salzburg, Austria

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