Notoriously Comfortable and Happily Blasé [Digital/Cassette 2013]
Water Temple formed in January 2011 in the destitute, culturally backward mining village of Perth, Western Australia (Hell on Earth to the locals). The primarily instrumental trio’s impressive musical pedigree (brothers Louis & William Hooper together with Richard Ingham) stretches the spectrum of local Perth band degeneracy and includes former and current positions in Taco Leg, Pond, Bamodi, Mink Mussel Creek, Wind Waker & Whalehammer.
The band’s new album Notoriously Comfortable and Happily Blasé, their third release following last year’s Guildford Hotel… EP and One Generation’s... album, is a lot more diverse than the former’s single minded riffing but less confusing than the latter’s concept album gibberish, it’s a collection of depressing songs and downer jams for and about sad sack fucks sitting at home.
Not so much doom as gloom, it wanders from sax derailed caffeine rock to synth laden downer ballads to prog flavoured shambles to stoner epics about the perils of drinking, without ever looking back to see where they left the keys.
Water Temple continue their Perth centric campaign with this release which takes its title from a disreputable local band’s assessment of every other band in Perth. The album was recorded over a few days late last year and mixed early January this year on analogue tape by bassist William Hooper at Stable Sound.
Notoriously Comfortableand Happily Blasé is out now on cassette and free digital download, available from their bandcamp page. For fans of later Black Flag, Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso, King Crimson, etc
STAY BRUTAL
