Exotico
by Temples
  • Record Label: ATO
  • Release Date: Apr 14, 2023
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66

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. Classic Rock Magazine
    Apr 14, 2023
    80
    Temples' fourth leaps from the speakers tapping veins of electro-psych, hypno-kosmische and soft-focused unreality. [May 2023, p.81]
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  2. Clash Music
    Apr 14, 2023
    80
    There are no bounds. ‘Exotico’ let’s go of control, so remarkable things can happen. It’s the closest Temples have been to releasing a masterpiece, and that’s saying something.
  3. Glide Magazine
    Apr 14, 2023
    70
    At times the album succumbs to bloated overload, the occasional instrumental placeholders like “Sultry Air” and “Movements of Time“ are not necessary on an already long-running album while the AOR pop of “Slow Days” feels a bit like running in place with fine, yet dull, overall results. However, the band’s chilling-on-a-space-age-beach attitude also results in some grand successes.

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  1. Lajaleaa
    May 26, 2023
    9
    Hands down, one of the most important bands to date. The commitment of the band to explore themselves and push the boundaries of their ideas,Hands down, one of the most important bands to date. The commitment of the band to explore themselves and push the boundaries of their ideas, places, sounds and self perception, it simply makes you gasp of surprise. There is an incredible and ponderous power on what the band constantly proves they are, on method and style, that it's confusing why they get lost in between unfinished intentions of cliché contemporary music. They deserve their own throne in the hall of indie psychedelic rock of the present and future.… Full Review »
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