British Indian crows with a fresh breeze ...

... When the British newcomer answer to the now no longer really young Black Crowes, which also just back (unfortunately!) Pause.
Anyone who wants can also sporadically hear some punk / alternative attitude, but otherwise is of Status Quo, Rolling Stones, Faces (including Ronnie Lane - reminiscences), Humble Pie to Free All Aboard what me in the past, at least , was fun - but here presented in a fresh, that the term 'classic rock' is actually dusted without straining even remotely or too strives for "we hop cool through the area" to sound.

Two guitars, a dirty as empathetic acting singer, a tight rhythm section, finished is the classic rock & roll in his incarnation since the British blues invasion - just wonderful. Great songs that easy to turn on, like it or not - to be absolutely contagious and it really worth angetestet!

By the way, while the Brit-pop base early / mid-1990s there was a band called Reef, which has gone down mercilessly in addition to the antipodes Blur and Oasis, perhaps because of their relatively conventional retro approach - precisely at this band will I remembered in a good way when listening to The Temperance Movement.

The presentation of the CD edition as Digisleeve is as retro as the musical direction, including plate inner shell, unfortunately without protective film for the disk - that can only Japanese. Just why?

The guys look like consequently sprung directly in 1970, the sound characteristics also follows the, a relatively warm, analog, nice and dry-sounding production without antics with live character and light snot-Charm.
The mastering took place at the legendary Abbey Road Studios (!), Unfortunately, but unfortunately this is also part of the victim infamous hyper compression (zero headroom digit RMS value, Dynamic Range value of 7).

In October / November, the quintet is on small Germany tour with 6 dates - the OnEnter may be worthwhile, because this music "cries" after live implementation.

Why not 5 star in my rating?
The song material can not consistently hold the very large class, five of which are, incidentally, already appeared on the "Pride Ep", perhaps missing another piece of significant originality - the musical inspirations are still relatively pronounced presence, their own identity must be up a notch develop far.
And last but not least this fine music is compressed to its CD edition to death.
The disc is nevertheless an absolutely noteworthy debut, without a doubt!