T.R. BURGE TAKES FLIGHT WITH NEW BAND AND DEBUT SINGLE “EAGLE FLY”
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T.R. Burge & The Temple released “Eagle Fly” on June 25th, the debut single from the Manchester and Berlin-rooted band. It marks the first release under the band name for T.R. Burge, who has been writing and recording as a solo artist for a number of years, and represents the full realisation of a project that has been taking shape, across cities and collaborators, for considerably longer than its 2024 formation date might suggest.
Recorded at Klangbild Studios in Berlin with producer Martin J. Fiedler, the track is slow-moving and atmospheric; strings-led, dreamy, and built around a slow rock pulse that gives it a cinematic, unhurried weight. It sits in similar territory to the hypnotic, wandering energy of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, an influence the band cite directly, and one that shaped the song’s mood and sense of drift from the earliest stages of its writing.
The song’s origins are characteristically unplanned. T.R. Burge and an old friend rented a cottage in rural Scotland and worked through a set of initial ideas away from any studio pressure or outside influence — an approach that suited the track’s subject matter well. Those early sketches were then taken to Berlin, where the full band recorded with Fiedler at Klangbild, and the song expanded considerably. Aninka Rosa’s violin — the element perhaps most central to what T.R. Burge & The Temple sound like — was added as the sessions developed, giving the track much of its emotional reach and the quality that makes it feel both intimate and wide open at once.
Lyrically, “Eagle Fly” is a song about the difficulty of hearing your own voice. Written against a backdrop of personal grief and the particular kind of introspection that brings, it deals with the accumulated weight of other people’s expectations — the opinions, cultural pressures, and received ideas that quietly shape how a person moves through the world — and the work involved in setting those aside. It arrives, ultimately, at something hopeful. The connection to both Manchester and Berlin runs through it: two cities that have each, in different ways, demanded something honest from the band.
The track features a guest appearance from Tobias, a musician whose involvement carries an unlikely footnote and he has since become a full member of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, the band whose songwriting first inspired the song. The circularity was unplanned.
As T.R. Burge puts it: “We are bombarded with so many opinions and ideas from other people, society and culture. Take a breath and follow your heart.”
T.R. Burge & The Temple are T.R. Burge (vocals, acoustic guitar), Aninka Rosa (violin, vocals), Pete Leaver (drums), and Frederic Lyenn Jacques (bass, keyboards) the latter having spent over a decade as a member of Mark Lanegan’s Band. Formed officially in Manchester in 2024, the project grew out of T.R. Burge’s years of solo work and the gradual accumulation of the right people around it. Its origins trace back eight years to a chance encounter in Berlin, a city that, alongside Manchester, continues to feed directly into their work. The two places represent something specific to the band: the industrial grit and communal energy of the north of England set against the more restless, romantically inclined atmosphere of the German capital, and the tension between those two worlds is audible throughout their music.
Their sound draws on Southern Gothic songwriting, old blues from the turn of the century, and the kind of sparse, emotionally unguarded work associated with Townes Van Zandt, Mark Lanegan, Crime and the City Solution, and Elliott Smith. At the centre of it is the relationship between Burge’s intimate, direct vocal delivery and Rosa’s violin — an instrument that in this band functions less as texture and more as a second, wordless voice, capable of carrying the emotional weight of a lyric on its own.
T.R. Burge & The Temple
[Single]
(Independent)
Release Date: June 15, 2026
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