Name: New Meaning
Brand: Tempers

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Release date

2022-04-01

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Tempers

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Electronic

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Dais

Dais Records is an independent American record label founded by Gibby Miller and Ryan Martin in 2007. Based in Los Angeles, California and New York, New York, Dais Records operates as a genre-agnostic label with a focus on experimental and avant-garde music. The label represents both emerging and established active artists while also curating rare and out of print material for reissue projects. Dais Records exclusively distributes its releases through Secretly Distribution.

Tempers is a dark synth-pop band with post-punk influences from New York City, USA. Their unique sound combines haunting melodies with pulsating electronic beats, creating an atmospheric and captivating musical experience. With their thought-provoking lyrics and mesmerizing performances, Tempers has gained a loyal following both in the underground music scene and beyond. Explore their discography to discover a world of sonic exploration and emotional depth.
Formed in [year], Tempers consists of duo Jasmine Golestaneh and Eddie Cooper. Drawing inspiration from various genres such as new wave, shoegaze, and industrial music, they have crafted a distinct sound that pushes boundaries while staying true to their artistic vision.
Known for their dynamic live shows, Tempers has performed at renowned venues across the globe, leaving audiences spellbound with their intense energy on stage. Their music has been praised by critics for its evocative atmosphere and introspective themes.

The New York City duo of Jasmine Golestaneh and Eddie Cooper aka Tempers specialize in a sleek strain of low-lit poetic synth-pop, the latest statement of which feels like the peak fruition of their elusive alchemy. With New Meaning, Tempers present an album about navigating the unknown, coping mechanisms and exploring the nature of choice. Its ten songs reflect on the creation of meaning as an access to freedom and purpose 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.

This 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,” “Here Nor There,” and “Song Behind A Wall” 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. 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”). 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.”

New Meaning is a document of forking paths and fleeting transcendence, the liberation of instability and impermanence, of embracing “a constant state of becoming.” Ten anthems for a derailed age, fugitive and sympathetic, nightwalking through an “anguished city” towards a nameless future, poised for rebirth: transcendent state, as if having finally glimpsed beyond the pale: “When I have / when I have no name / my joy is blinding.”

New Meaning

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