Good interview with an Aussie website.
Temples: "Katy Perry ruined everything for everyone"
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Your sound has been compared to other bands whether it be Tame Impala, The Byrds and The Beatles. What do you feel makes Temples an original statement?
I guess at the end of the day, songwriting. It’s very hard to write something completely original without it being completely deranged and incomprehensible. We’re lovers of melody and I guess what makes us original is that these songs haven’t been written before, these are new songs, melodies over chords that haven’t been done in this way. They’re not songs where we’ve copied another song. People will draw comparisons with certain songs, like “They stole the riff off ‘Ticket To Ride’” when it sounds like nothing like it. They identify the 12-string guitar with The Beatles or The Byrds. I guess it’s songwriting at the end of the day. These songs hopefully have an original sense to them, even if you take away the production and just play them on an acoustic guitar; they’d be songs that people could relate to.
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