Art Feynman Debuts “Desperately Free”

Art Feynman AKA: Luke Temple, has dropped new single, “Desperately Free.” The track is off his forthcoming album, Be Good The Crazy Boys
Art Feynman AKA: Luke Temple, has dropped new single, “Desperately Free.” The track is off his forthcoming album, Be Good The Crazy Boys

Art Feynman AKA: Luke Temple, has dropped new single, “Desperately Free.” The track is off his forthcoming album, Be Good The Crazy Boys, available November 10th via Western Vinyl. “Something changed while I was sleeping,” the backing vocalists interject between Temple’s murmured incantations, “Somehow I feel different // as I go about my day.” Of “Desperately Free,” Temple adds: “I was thinking about the obsession with spiritual growth or with ‘curing’ death and the compensatory consequences that ensue as a result. We can’t cheat nature of which we are one and the same, she’ll find balance eventually.”

Until now, Art Feynman has strictly been a solo act, a way for Temple to explore surprising sonic landscapes without the burdens of identity. Be Good The Crazy Boys was recorded live in-studio with a full band. The result captures a spirit of restless anxiety, and recalls the most frenetic work by Talking Heads, or Oingo Boingo at their darkest. “Sonically, I was inspired by records that were recorded at the late Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas such as Grace Jones’ ‘Private Life,’ Lizzy Mercier Descloux’s Mambo Nassau, and Talking Heads‘ Remain in Light”.

Temple explains, “To me, there was a lot of energy that needed to be released as the result of living in isolation for six years. It also seems to speak to a general anxiety we’re all holding, but it’s expressed in a cathartic way.” It’s this acknowledgement of general anxiety that separates Feynman from the other fictional personas that have been cropping up in the music world lately. Feynman doesn’t sound suave, confident, or even heartbroken in these songs; it sounds like he’s on the verge of a panic attack.

Pre-order Be Good The Crazy Boys by Art Feynman HERE

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