Templo Diez
Sunland
The long-awaited seventh album the Dutch/French/Italian band Templo Diez, titled after a Californian ghost town. The start of a new album trilogy, the album takes the listener on a journey along 9 songs in the introspective and cinematic style characteristic of the band. Inspired by ghost towns along the US Pacific states and mostly written during the pandemic, 'Sunland' embarks the band on a new voyage across a mythical America, exploring further themes of loss, loneliness, hope and redemption. Back to their original trio configuration, this seventh album (and start of a third trilogy!) marks a renewed creativity for the band. At the crossing between Americana, slowcore and indie rock, Templo Diez' music draws its inspiration from travels, landscapes, from true stories and dreamt memories, from movies, films, novels, poetry, as on previous releases, each song could be experienced as a short movie soundtrack. On 'Sunland,' in typical Templo Diez fashion, each track is also a short story, an emotional study of the song characters, with their fears, wounds and motivations. The resulting tracks are a kaleidoscopic ensemble alternating personal and introspective themes with gothic impressions of an America born of fever dreams and cheap late night TV in deserted motels.