Tempelhof

You K EP Tempelhof

Early support by Balearic Gabba Soundystem, Margot, Maxime Dangles, Matt Walsh, Makossa, Santos, Chida (Ene Music), Jerry Bouthier, Wehbba, Dirty Channels… Tempelhof are Italian's Luciano Ermondi and Paolo Mazzacani, a very musical duo who have already released a much-respected full length on Distraction Records and several well received remixes. Now they debut with a four track EP on the ever-original Hell Yeah Recordings and continue to confound expectations with their pairing of electronica's precision with shoe-gazes textures and plenty of real instrumentals. ove -An Interpretation is the EP's mournful opener. Sparse and alone, it trills with haunting guitar notes as the rueful vocal swims in seas of echo and reverb. Around the mid-way point a cosmic beat kicks in and carries the whole arrangement off into space with twitchy electronics and acid rumbles colouring the background. Glorious Day opens with more thin, vulnerable keys and plenty of echo. The rubbery kick drums comes in immediately here as harmonic notes ring out and rise up toward the sky. It's hurt but optimistic and invites you to get lost in its glistening, swirling synth clouds for five day-dream like minutes.