Temple Fang Announce New Album Lifted From the Wind Out April 25
Heads up on one of the best records you’ll hear this year. At least one of the best records I’ll hear. A Spring release suits Lifted From the Wind, which breathes new life into Temple Fang‘s sound and heavy progressive rock more broadly, the Amsterdam-native four-piece developing their craft a new degree of refinement without giving up the expansive feel of their work to-date — that sense of having gone far out one time a long while ago and stayed there to beam back soulful and immersive psych jams.
I was asked to do a bio for the record, and I did ultimately donate a few thoughts to the cause — the band sent me a file with a bunch of my quotes about them; turns out I’ve said some very nice things about Temple Fang since their inception; I stand by all of it — to go along with a piece they wrote in their own words. The bottom line narrative of the album though is that they’ve moved deeper into traditional songwriting without necessarily giving up the longform methodology of their work to this point, and oof, does it ever work.
If I’m lucky, I’ll get to do a premiere or something from Lifted From the Wind before it’s out April 25, but either way keep an eye for a review. This is a band actively pushing themselves to the next level creatively, and it’s not a thing to be missed. Once you hear “Once.”
The following came down the PR wire and includes dates for the band’s Spring tour:
We are proud to announce the release of our new album ‘Lifted from the Wind’ on Stickman Records on April 25th.
Our most ambitious and realized work yet, we can’t wait for y’all to hear it.
Pre-order starts on March 13th. XO TF
With ‘Lifted From the Wind’, Temple Fang posit their creativity not only as a communion with each other — a conversation of instruments — but with something more ethereal. Their psychedelia is one of soul as much as sound, and where plenty of bands out there cast their songs as rituals, Temple Fang convey the joy of true reverence in the name of sonic exploration and, now more than ever, craft.
That’s right, kids. They’re still plenty sprawling, but these are the most refined songs Temple Fang have wrought to-date from their particular corner of the cosmos (somewhere in Amsterdam), digging into repetition for hypnosis and emphasis alike, and remaking various notions of heavy in their image. ‘Lifted From the Wind’ helps give shape to the trajectory Temple Fang have been on from their outset, and feels like a moment of arrival in terms of manifesting a vision of who they want to be. It’s a special, deeply honest record, and whatever Temple Fang do from here on out, a landmark in the life of this band. You’d be lucky to see others working under its influence. — JJ Koczan, Feb. 2025
‘Lifted From the Wind’
01. The River
02. Once
03. Harvest Angel
04. The Radiant
05. Josephine
Produced by Sebastiaan van Bijlevelt
29/03 Terneuzen, NL Terneuzen on Fire
23/04 Køln, DE Sonic Ballroom
24/04 Duisburg, DE Bora
25/05 Münster, DE Rare Guitar
26/04 Jena, DE Kuba
27/04 Dresden, DE Chemiefabrik
28/04 Hamburg, DE Markthalle
30/04 Amsterdam, NL Secret Show w/ Heath
02/05 Eindhoven, NL Effenaar w/ Mojo & the Kitchen Brothers
03/05 Haarlem, NL Slachthuis w/ Heath
05/05 Augsburg, DE Soho Stage
06/05 Salzburg, AT Rockhouse Bar
07/05 Stuttgart, DE Goldmarks
08/05 Winterthur, CH Gaswerk
09/05 Seewen, CH Gaswerk
10/05 Delémont, CH SAS
11/05 Barberaz, FR Brin de Zinc
13/05 Esch-Alzette, LUX Kulturfabrik w/ Elder
14/05 Tourcoing, FR Le Grand Mix w/ Elder
15/05 Rotterdam, NL Baroeg @ Rotown
16/05 Groningen, NL Vera w/Heath
17/05 Nijmegen, NL Sonic Whip
19/05 Frankfurt, DE Das Bett w/ The Devil and The Almighty Blues
20/05 Karlsruhe, DE P8 w/ The Devil and The Almighty Blues
21/05 Bielefeld, DE Forum w/ The Devil and The Almighty Blues
22/05 Leipzig, DE Werk 2 w/ The Devil and The Almighty Blues
23/05 Oldenburg, DE Cadillac Club
Temple Fang:
Dennis Duijnhouwer – Bass, Vox
Jevin de Groot – Guitar, Vox
Ivy van der Veer – Guitar
Daan Wopereis – Drums
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