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Party Gator Purgatory

Party Gator Purgatory

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Ahead of the release of their debut album ‘PARTY GATOR PURGATOR’ on 19th May via Bella Union, Temps - the 40-strong international music collective devised, curated and produced by James Acaster - are sharing new single ‘partygatorresurrection’. Tell me about the party gator that inspired the album, because I know that he is no longer with us. The party gator costume you’ve been sporting is a replica, yes? Calling on everyone from NNAMDÏ to Open Mike Eagle to Shamir to Joana Gomilla to Deerhoof’s John Dieterich, Acaster has formed a superteam of inquisitive wordsmiths and cosmic shredders. He’s become the coolest DJ in the world, and no song on the album arrives the same—which elevates the mythology around the project altogether. Many months have passed since Acaster completed PARTY GATOR PURGATORY, and he still doesn’t know how so many musicians he adores, respects and pulls influence from wound up on his own project—one that is set to propel him even further into his return to music, drumming and songwriting.

Then I was in a hardcore band—very short, hardcore punk songs; listening to a lot of Minor Threat and Nerve Agents. And we sounded very much like that gothic side of hardcore. Maybe then, a post-hardcore band. Obviously, that’s the next natural evolution. You discover time signatures and melody, so you start writing those kinds of songs, listening to At the Drive-In all time. I think it really helped that Seb had put his drums down initially. I was asking people if they wanted to contribute, thinking in my head, Are they going to say no because it’s this stand-up comedian asking them? Forgetting that these amazing musicians were already on it who had done such an incredible job. I was surprised at how seriously the musicians took it. The last song on the album, “slowreturn,” with Shamir and Yoni Wolf, is pretty emotional. If you had to do it over again, would you still risk getting heat stroke and labrunthitis for the sake of making music videos in a full gator suit?Well, it’s so hard because, obviously, the heavyweights of that year are deeply personal albums to me. But now, [ PARTY GATOR PURGATORY] is a deeply personal album to me that will fit in a space that very few things do, beause it’s not only an album I was involved in; it’s an album where all of the things on it that are incredible to me are done by other people. I still dont’ know how it was made. I know what I did, but I don’t know how they wrote any of their parts. I can’t fathom it, so it still holds that magic to me of an album written by somebody else and made by somebody else. It’s such a unique experience, but I certainly wouldn’t be releasing it and putting it out into the world if I didn’t think it could go toe-to-toe with the heavyweights of 2016.

Although many people might have first seen Acaster on either TV, on stage without instruments, or in a dark room in an Edinburgh Fringe theatre venue trying out comedy material, the 38-year-old actually cut his performing teeth playing in bands during his adolescence. Temps, then, is actually something of a creative homecoming for him.

Live

Vast in scope and scale, and fizzing with an experimental energy, the trippy PARTY GATOR PURGATORY manages to blend a host of ideas, guests and moods into an album that draws you into its own unique world. There are unexpectedly moving moments of shared sentiment between different vocalists, particularly around narratives of mental health and vulnerability. Quelle Chris’ claim in ‘At(moves)’, “I just need a safe place to store my mind” chimes with the exhausted, uneasy tone of Yoni Wolf’s feature in ‘Slowreturn’: “I’m just one guy / Each day I try / If sometimes I’m fried / I don’t try.”



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