Temples - VolcanoTemples release their second album Volcano on Heavenly Recordings. It was self produced and recorded at the bands home studio in Kettering. It doesnt take too long with Volcano to realise that, while all the things that made the band special the first time around remain intact, a noticeable evolution has taken place. Its there from the outset: the beefed up beats of Certainty reveal an expanded sonic firmament, one in which bright synth hooks and

official vinyl on gronland - comes housed in a gatefold sleeve

you have never heard these songs before (with probably one exception)

casual & knowing

E2-E4 continues working through similar territory for close to an hour with an application to trance-state electronics missing from most of the music that preceded it

Yet despite the poppy sound

complete with gravelly-voiced scatting courtesy of collaborator Don Randi

In spite of its technological-sounding title and apocalyptic sci-fi themes

A brain in a microwave

where the film was shot

This Futurismo release revitalises this event with exciting artwork and packaging that enforces the bands forward thinking approach to the aesthetics that shaped the following decade

Keiron Melling (drums)

" and "Make Trouble" thrash about with glorious abandon