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PREMIERE: Find your brain’s melting point in Timi Temple’s psychotropic clip Sands of Time

Native to Sydney’s North Shore, Kilter guitarist Timi Temple is a DIY pioneer, crafting songs in the psychedelic, indie-dance space produced entirely by himself.

The singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Timothy Lockwood has had a love affair with music his whole life, performing since age six, playing any instrument he could get his hands on.

With influences dancing between the likes of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix plus a natural gravitation towards blending past and present within his lyrical work, Lockwood was once again drawn to this theme with latest number, Sands of Time.

Sands of Time boasts everything from animated cartoon characters, explosions of colour, ticking clocks and scribbled drawings coming to life, and this is only the first 10 seconds.

The new video for the upbeat, atmospheric track represents fragments of Lockwood’s life through a compilation of animations in every colour imaginable. It’s anything from a bartender melting into a skeleton to eyeballs splashing down a girl’s face that make this clip a complete rollercoaster. You’ll never know what’s around the corner.

Each slice of imagery throughout Sands of Time is vastly different from the next, yet somehow go hand in hand as they melt into one another.

“I was checking out some influences and came across a peculiar video for Dope Lemon’s song Uptown Folks,” said Lockwood. 

“It was an animated video that seemed like an amalgamation of a bunch of other clips from past and present. I thought something similar to this would be perfect for this song, the catalyst for which was a decade prior.” 

The song itself invites listeners in with Lockwood’s velvety smooth vocals, which meticulously flow with the music. Made up of melodic, dreamy guitar, washed-out synths and progressive beat, Sands of Time creates both a sonic and visual time traveller’s experience sprinkled with what feels like a few subliminal psychedelic messages.

Sands of Time is only a fragment of what to expect from the definitive talent that is Timi Temple, who we only can only predict will bring big things in the near future.