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Temperatures "Ymir" LP

"There's this duo from the UK that I really like: Temperatures. I don't know too much about them but I think they're just two guys from the UK. I sort of, well it's one of those things where you get your information through this underground network of noise and avant-garde, weird music that's happening all the time now. And I saw their name a couple of times, and then I saw the Temperatures album, the one on Heat Retention, at Hospital Records in New York. On the wall, it's like, Temperatures LP, limited edition, 100 copies, and the cover is kind of this rough paper and really homemade with silkscreen on it. Very little information. Just "Temperatures". It's the kind of thing that makes me buy records-- all of those aspects. Like, an intriguing name, only making enough records that they know that they can sell in a couple of months and not having any lying around in their basement in boxes, and the most minimal of information-- just play the fucking record and that's all the information you need. They did two 7"s themselves, where the sleeves where very homemade. I knew it would be something really extreme, noise-duo kind of stuff. We were playing it the other day and it was pretty cool. It's really this dark-hole of noise-playing. It's actually really distinctive in a way amongst that genre, because there's a lot of standardized tropes in the noise genre that people fall into-- which I don't mind, I like the idea that this is traditional way of playing in that world, but it's always cool to hear something like this where you can't really slot it into those things."