{"product_id":"bliss","title":"Bliss","description":"\u003cp\u003eBliss is the fifth studio album by English band Temples, released on June 26, 2026 on V2 Records as their first LP since 2023’s Exotico. The Kettering quartet—James Bagshaw, Thomas Walmsley, Adam Smith, and Rens Ottink—self‑produced the record in their own studio, describing it as an exploration of “melancholic euphoria” that reimagines their psychedelic rock roots through the prism of late‑’90s and early‑2000s dance music. Across ten tracks and about 36 minutes, they draw on the emotional pull of artists like Faithless, Underworld, Massive Attack, and Portishead while retaining their usual fondness for psych‑tinged riffs and ornate melodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusically, Bliss leans more heavily on synths, loops, and club‑oriented beats than any previous Temples album, using “slamming beats, huge‑sounding synths, jagged sound effects, and dancefloor vibes” to create a collage‑like, interconnected listening experience. Lead single Jet Stream Heart sets the tone with a hypnotic, bass‑driven pulse and lyrics about being physically “wired into” music on a club sound system, while other songs like Vendetta, Glimmer, Megalith, Revelation, Horizon, Blue Flame, and Fantasy Realm pair scuzzy or desert‑psych guitars with bubbling dance melodies and trance‑like momentum. Thematically, the album moves through disconnection, frustration, surrender, and renewal, with the band framing Bliss as about “permission: to let go, to move, and to become something unexpected”—a forward‑looking statement of creative freedom that asks listeners to throw out fixed ideas of what Temples are and instead hear psych and dance as natural kin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"CD \/ Album","offer_id":53681400414522,"sku":"38949","price":26.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-07-03_at_8.33.15_PM.jpeg?v=1783125290","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/bliss","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}