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With their self-produced New Meaning, Tempers present an album about navigating the unknown, coping mechanisms and exploring the nature of choice. It's ten songs reflect on the creation of meaning as an access to liberation in times of transition and loss, speculating on the transformative potential that exists alongside the grief of living in a world that is in an ongoing state of crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is distinctly nocturnal music, elegantly introspective and quietly intense, born of \"living in a society that is still a dream of itself.\" Tracks like \"Unfamiliar,\" \"Nightwalking,\" and \"Sightseeing\" distill The Tempers template to icy pop perfection, drum machinery framed in shivering reverb, Golestaneh's voice both ethereal and towering, simultaneously within and above. Cooper speaks of production ideas regarding \"human architecture,\" breathing life into the precision of electronics, and of melodic intervals \"on the exact edge between major and minor, severe and sweet.\" On other cuts, Golestaneh and Cooper's production skews more evocatively greyscale, from new wave shadowplay (\"Carried Away\") to depressive disco (\"In And Out Of Hand\") to an elegy of hopeful resignation (\"Secrets And Lies\"). 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