Sounds From The Junkshop #82 - The Cooper Temple Clause
"First of all let’s teach you how to mingle/Then we’ll teach you how to kill..." - The Cooper Temple Clause - Who Needs Enemies? The Cooper Temple Clause, similar to King Adora a couple of years previously, were one of those bands who exploded on the scene in a bright supernova flash only to never quite live up to that brilliant early promise that they had. Bursting out of Reading like some twelve-legged nightmare machine, I first became aware of them when their debut single The Devil Walks In The Sand picked up rave reviews in both the NME and Kerrang. Listening back to it now, it still holds up well with the crushing drony guitar riff hammering your brain into pieces. Certainly in an age where most indie bands weren't really packing much of a punch, they definitely stood out. This was early 2002 and there were signs of a UK indie renaissance at this point to counter the Strokes-dominated US wave that had broken the previous year. Along with the likes of the Liberti...