#63 Top Tracks in Downtempo

2023-12-29 Downtempo

Temple Tears

#92 Top Releases in Melodic House & Techno

For release number 43, Kiosk ID brings together desert-born pathos and psychedelic sound design. Meeting somewhere between the Nevada desert and the European festival circuit, Temple Tears and bīsu deliver a scintillating, groove-driven three-tracker tinged with acid and ethnic undercurrents. On Addiction, Temple Tears delivers a radiant Melodic House cut driven by compact drum structures and brightly blazing synth contortions. Artfully oscillating between brooding, mechanical, and beautifully emotive, Temple Tears strobing synth patterns invoke a sense of beatific fragility-glints of light in a darkly churning groove machine. Temple Kiss is an eclectic amalgamation of Temple Tears and bīsus aesthetics: plucky and organic on the surface, massive and sub-heavy below, and supercharged by a wild streak of acid, Temple Kiss unfolds high- octane groove structures, subtle ethnic hues, and huge, blown-out acid eruptions. The result is a supercollision of genres-inventive, raw, and powerfully physical. bīsu closes with Hear Me, a hypnotic, sawtooth-laden seance suspended across fields of mangled pads that gradually transform into radiant clouds of otherworldly aether. Throaty incantations, blossoming strings, and commanding lead patterns bloom across the frequency spectrum like creeping hallucinogens. The result is both haunting and euphoric, a modulated blend of grit and transcendence. Across two solo contributions and a collab, Temple Kiss delivers three beautiful renditions of its creators artistic DNA-darkly throbbing, brightly transcendent, and beautifully fused into a hypnotic desert totem made for the deepest reaches of the playa.

Temple Tears, BISU