Matthew Halsall - The Temple Within Artist_Bolis Pupul The video shot at le

The video shot at le Corbusier’s Unité D’Habitation in Nantes (called ‘cité radieuse’) takes the viewer through the modular system and design applied to the residential buildings

you know that these six musicians where in the right mood

Vivian Girls

are uncannily good at carving out a space for the imagination to crawl into and wander about

making it not only the longest Alvvays album but also the most harmonically rich and lyrically provocative

Matthew Halsall - The Temple Within Artist_Bolis Pupul The video shot at leWhen Matthew Halsall released Salute to the Sun in November 2020, his first new album in five years, he shared the first fruits from an especially fertile period of writing and recording, which also gave birth to the music released here as The Temple Within. The recording sessions featured Halsall's then brand new band of hand picked local musicians, brought together through weekly rehearsals and a monthly residency at Yes in Manchester, they forged