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Tempers are an American Indie pop Dark wave and Synth-pop duo from New York. The band formed in 2013 and consists of singer and songwriter Jasmine Golestaneh and Eddie Cooper.
The duo started writing and recording music together in 2013, and have released 4 studio albums.
Tempers first full-length studio album, Services, was released in 2015 on the German record label aufnahme + wiedergabe. "Strange Harvest" was included as a single for Services. The album was popular in Europe, and gained the duo a European and UK following. When recording, they used the Moog Opus 3 on tracks like "Summer is Gone" and the acoustic version of "Strange Harvest".
In 2016, they played at the Volcano Extravaganza festival on the island of Stromboli.
The duo released a five-track EP Fundamental Fantasy, on the British record label The Vinyl Factory, on 24 February 2017. The duo recorded much of Fundamental Fantasy through improvisation, and Cooper said in an interview for Wonderland Magazine that "a lot of the melodies and chord progressions came out of live improvisation, so the songs already had their colours and characters defined before we even got into the arrangement and production". "Further" was released as the lead single for the EP and in a review by David Graver for Cool Hunting it was described as "thoughtful" and "complex songwriting".
In 2017, Tempers played at SXSW in Austin, Texas and toured Europe in the summer.
Tempers were signed to the label Dais Records in 2019, and their second full-length studio album Private Life was released on October 25, 2019. They began writing the album in 2017. A review by Rich Wilhelm from PopMatters is generally positive and Wilhelm writes that "the album should appeal both to old school and new school synthpop fans". Writing for Slug Magazine, Bianca Velasquez gave a favourable review and said "listening to Private Life was a pleasant journey through a story of loneliness and despair".
In December 2020, Tempers re-released Services under Dais Records, making it available in the United States and internationally.
Tempers' third full-length studio album New Meaning was released in 2022 on the record label Dais Records. The songs were written by Golestaneh and she has said she was influenced by the uncertainity of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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