The self-produced record and follow-up to 2019's Private Life, will be out on April 1, 2022 via Dais Records. Pre-order your copy here.
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 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.”
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: “When I have / when I have no name / my joy is blinding.”
The album has a companion book of original artwork and lyrics. Jasmine created a hand-made collage for each song, translating it’s sonic landscapes and lyrical themes into concrete images. The book is published by Old Habits Press.
Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for "Unfamiliar", below.
Private Life tracklist:
01. Nightwalking
02. Unfamiliar
03. Multitudes
04. In and Out of Hand
05. It Falls Into You
06. Secrets and Lies
07. Here Nor There
08. Song Behind a Wall
09. Carried Away
10. Sightseeing
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