Tempting Permanance

The Temptations Template clones every musical and lyrical cliché from its 60 years of application into this latest, wonderful production. From start to finish, it sways across the aural spectrum with lush harmonies and chorus lines to explode from these like all our yesterdays. If you need the history explaining, the last original member (and producer of the album) Otis Williams narrates it for us, but it is really all there in the songs. Shelley wasn’t entirely accurate in placing the inevitability of change over what once was, yet he wouldn’t have known music from the Temps at any time. And when Smokey drifts through…