Devilishly dark, and coated in an overbearing air of ominous and foreboding energy, Temple Solar’s ‘City EP’ sees the Chile based dark wave group really spread their wings resplendently within the night sky they’re so clearly able to describe and highlight. City EP is a record about a place, a space, and its meaning to the residents. Written about and for Santiago, the EP lusciously describes and evocatively invokes feelings about the feelings that the night brings to life in the area. It’s brooding, moody, and even dreary at times. But, within the entire dark shroud that Temple Solar cloud the record in, you can feel the love for a space, the sheer adoration and obsession for a place that you call home.
City EP isn’t your average rock record. There’s an undeniably weight to it, an overbearing sense of heaviness that seems to compound and fall onto you with something light and streaming still managing to find itself amongst the darkness of it all. A haunting characteristic pervades over the lyricism, an undeniably desolate and unwelcoming tone that leaves you altogether unsettled and uneasy.
But all in all, City EP tells you the story of a space in a way that you can see it through the eyes of its passionate residents. There’s a wondrous feeling to gaze through the nightlife and feeling of an entire city just through the music of a single group. A majestic piece of dark wave.