Temples: Live at Best Kept Secret Festival 2013 –

Rapidly becoming no best kept secret at all, the Best Kept Secret festival has been attracting a lot of attention and promised to be yet another in the seemingly endless parade of well-attended festivals going on throughout the world during the Summer of 2013.

And frankly, that was great news. Festivals have long been a place where audiences can get hit with a range of music they used to get via radio, but sadly no longer are able to – at least in the U.S. Europe, I don’t worry about. I haven’t run across a European radio outlet yet that hasn’t offered an eclectic feast of music on a daily basis – but I’m sure some of my friends in Europe may have a different point of view on that. All I know is what I hear every day via streams – and it’s enough to swear off the mainstream for good.

Needless to say, festivals have become an embarrassment of riches where music is concerned – and we’re all better off for it.

Tonight it’s one of those bands who have been gathering a lot of word of mouth and positive reaction, not the least, positive reaction from the press. Temples have been given Band-To-Watch status by a number of media sites, and even now their initial recorded endeavors, 45 pressings of their debut Shelter Song, have been going for stupid amounts of money via E-Bay. Pretty good for a track issued with little fanfare. But that’s how the band was doing. In short, phenomenally well. And now with Sean Ono Lennon on their side, as both song-writing collaborator and producer (see their latest offering via YouTube right here). You can also pre-order their latest album, Exotico right here: Exotico.

And as was overheard during this segment of the Best Kept Secret Festival “it’s going to be a Psychedelic Summer”. And if the overwhelming popularity of fellow Psych-meistersTame Impala was any indication – that’s just about exactly what it was.

I first ran Temples in concert several years ago, when they debuted at the London Calling 2012 Festival. Watching the growth, both in music and audience is truly gratifying.

In the meantime, dial back a few years and catch them in their formative stages.