{"id":2291304,"date":"2026-02-20T17:19:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2291304"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:19:47","slug":"temples-tell-us-about-their-kylie-minogue-meets-daft-punk-return-on-jet-stream-heart-and-euphoric-new-album-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/temples-tell-us-about-their-kylie-minogue-meets-daft-punk-return-on-jet-stream-heart-and-euphoric-new-album-bliss\/","title":{"rendered":"Temples tell us about their &#8220;Kylie Minogue meets Daft Punk&#8221; return on &#8216;Jet Stream Heart&#8217; and euphoric new album &#8216;Bliss&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/temples\">Temples<\/a> have spoken to <em>NME<\/em> about their \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/kylie-minogue\">Kylie Minogue<\/a> meets <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/daft-punk\">Daft Punk<\/a>\u201d new single \u2018Jet Stream Heart\u2019, and what to expect from their \u201990s and early \u201900s dance-inspired new album \u2018Bliss\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Kettering indie four-piece\u2019s fifth album will arrive on Friday June 26 on V2 Records, launched by the psychedelic electronica rush of \u2018Jet Stream Heart\u2019 \u2013 a sign of the band\u2019s feet being firmly planted on the dancefloor for their escapist new record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, it\u2019s Kylie Minogue, meets Daft Punk, meets Temples!\u201d frontman James Bagshaw told <em>NME<\/em> of the single. \u201cThese days we\u2019re always just trying to make stuff that\u2019s fun. That song started the whole thing for this record. The song is about being enticed by music itself, and it does it on its own. You\u2019ll be walking past a club or a venue and there\u2019s an allure to it. What is that pulls you in?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s non-apologetic and pulls you in straight away. It\u2019s a shock to the system, but the next single will be the ultra shock to the senses. If people like this, they\u2019re gonna love the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jet Stream Heart\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Awj01cBxgbA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been three years since the band\u2019s last album \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/temples-announce-new-album-exotico-share-bouncy-new-single-gamma-rays-buy-tickets-3378790\">Exotico<\/a>\u2019, which was produced by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/sean-ono-lennon\">Sean Ono Lennon<\/a>. This time, they chose to helm the record themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of creative output, you\u2019re baring it all and you can feel very naked,\u201d Bagshaw admitted. \u201cFor us, it\u2019s all about the purity of the idea and the creative vision. If we took these songs to someone else, they\u2019d put their own stamp on it \u2013 and so they should.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is pure Temples, more than records we\u2019ve produced ourselves before because we really haven\u2019t thought about how it\u2019s going to be received. That\u2019s incredibly liberating. Maybe the fans will hate it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bagshaw said for for album number five, the band wanted to push themselves to \u201ccome at this record from a different angle and not follow our own tropes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They questioned and examined the role of each instrument, made all the more extreme by viewing music through the prism of late \u201990s and early 2000s dance music to create a feeling of \u201cmelancholic euphoria\u201d. They found themselves in the world of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/faithless\">Faithless<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/underworld\">Underworld<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/ARTISTS\/MASSIVE-ATTACK\">Massive Attack<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/portishead\">Portishead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3930533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3930533\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3930533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Smith, James Bagshaw, Rens Ottink and Tom Walmsley of Temples performs on stage at Stereo, 2023 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti\/Redferns)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re of an age where we\u2019re too young to have enjoyed what was going on in the late \u201890s,\u201d said Bagshaw. \u201cIt makes me sound old, but the Millennium eve was the first time I tried prosecco \u2013 and I was underage by a long way. A lot of the time, music is very nostalgia-driven. You hear people say all the time that, \u2018Music isn\u2019t as good now as it was when I was out partying\u2019. Is that true, or are you just nostalgic about a time? For this, it\u2019s that nostalgia of being too young to go out and that allure of what you were missing out on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe songs from that time transport all of us back to that pre-legal drinking age. There\u2019s something quite magical but melancholy about it at the same time. There\u2019s a longing. We\u2019re nostalgic for a club scene that we weren\u2019t even a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added:\u00a0\u201cIt was just a great time for uplifting dance music. A lot of it didn\u2019t sound electronic because they were sampling guitar music and orchestras. It wasn\u2019t pure electronica even then, and that\u2019s what we\u2019ve gone for on this record.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Temples: &#039;Our First Gig Was Like A First Kiss&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mfcQsBfb29I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Lyrically, Bagshaw said that the album married a sense of longing while also dancing towards the future to create a feeling of \u201cpermission: to let go, to move, and to become something unexpected\u201d. The album deals heavily in \u201cdisconnection, frustration, surrender and renewal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA track like \u2018Vendetta\u2019 is about how we all disagree with each other at different points of our lives, even with our best friends,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve all been on those nights out where someone disagrees with your plan or you\u2019re at loggerheads about something. It\u2019s about the slight euphoria of suddenly seeing past that and realising you haven\u2019t fallen out forever; you were just being arseholes!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThis is our most forward-thinking album yet. No one can pigeon-hole us and say we\u2019re a garage rock band or a psych band. There are tinges of psychedelia but in a more modern way. There are no \u2018psych\u2019 bands that sound like this record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3930534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3930534\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3930534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/temples_bliss_art_EDIT.jpg\" alt=\"Temples announce new album 'Bliss'. Credit: Press\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/temples_bliss_art_EDIT.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/temples_bliss_art_EDIT-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/temples_bliss_art_EDIT-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/temples_bliss_art_EDIT-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/temples_bliss_art_EDIT-696x696.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3930534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Temples announce new album \u2018Bliss\u2019. Credit: Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Temples release \u2018Bliss\u2019 on Friday June 26 on V2 Records. Pre-order it <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/temples.tmstor.es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and check out the full tracklist below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u2018Jet Stream Heart\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>2. \u2018Revelations\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>3. \u2018Megalith\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>4. \u2018Glimmer\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>5. \u2018Blue Flame\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>6. \u2018Vendetta\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>7. \u2018Jaguar\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>8. \u2018Horizon\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>9. \u2018Waiting On The Echoes\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>10. \u2018Fantasy Realm\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temples have spoken to NME about their \u201cKylie Minogue meets Daft Punk\u201d new single \u2018Jet Stream Heart\u2019, and what to expect from their \u201990s and early \u201900s dance-inspired new album \u2018Bliss\u2019. 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