The Needle Was Traveling:Tarwater

Title: Temper Temper

Label: Revelation

Genre: angular art punk

Rating: 5.5 of 7

With the mounds of dancey art-punk that has been released in the last 5 years, it begins to be hard to decipher who is another tip-off and who is actually a genuinely good band. Temper Temper is without a doubt the latter. Thirty seconds into the first song I realized this; they craft a sharp, sexy, and unbelievably dancey sound that is smart as it is ass shaking. Scrounged up from the streets of Milwaukee, these 5 effeminate young men have finally found their niche in modern music. Their best decision as of yet was to enlist Detroit producing phenomena Jim Diamond to handle the boards, he has previously produced extremely popular albums for the White Stripes, Electric Six and the Von Bondies. The sound agreed on is centered around bouncy synth lines and Pat Fuller’s sassy vocals. The rest of the band lays down angular post-punk that is a perfect fit for the sound. This is a good album, and in my opinion, what the Rapture’s album was supposed to sound like.

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