Biography
Art Feynman fuses fading pop frameworks with psychedelia, worldbeat, and cosmic folktronica in a manner that echoes certain solo outings under his given identity. The moniker belongs to visual artist and indie singer/songwriter Luke Temple, who first stepped into the role of animist musician shortly after leaving New York for California in 2016. His opening pair of albums, Blast Off Through the Wicker from 2017 and Half Price at 3:30 from 2020, remained one-man endeavors, whereas Be Good the Crazy Boys in 2023 captured Temple laying down his characteristically playful yet anxious art pop with a complete band during live studio sessions.
Once Luke Temple had relocated to rural Northern California after spending twenty years in New York City, he issued the initial Art Feynman recording in April 2016: the six-minute environmental-sound collage “Rice.” Keeping his face hidden in all promotional imagery, he followed a year later with the stand-alone single “The Shape You’re In,” a Krautrock-tinged piece that confronted modern technology and politics. Taped on a four-track recorder, Blast Off Through the Wicker appeared in July 2017 via Western Vinyl—the same imprint that had already released both Temple’s solo work and albums by his band Here We Go Magic. Touring the United States behind Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier under the Feynman name, he then dropped the Near Negative EP that December. Temple’s own Both-And surfaced on Native Cat Recordings in 2019; two years later, still concealing his features in artwork, Art Feynman returned to Western Vinyl with the entirely solo Half Price at 3:30.
After six years of relative seclusion, Temple shifted to Los Angeles and cut his third Art Feynman album in the studio with other musicians. Portraying the persona as an element of collective consciousness wrestling with everything from FOMO to looming societal breakdown, he pointed to Talking Heads’ Remain in Light, Lizzy Mercier Descloux’s Mambo Nassau, and Grace Jones’ Private Life—each recorded at least in part at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas—as reference points for Be Good the Crazy Boys, which reached Western Vinyl in November 2023.
Once Luke Temple had relocated to rural Northern California after spending twenty years in New York City, he issued the initial Art Feynman recording in April 2016: the six-minute environmental-sound collage “Rice.” Keeping his face hidden in all promotional imagery, he followed a year later with the stand-alone single “The Shape You’re In,” a Krautrock-tinged piece that confronted modern technology and politics. Taped on a four-track recorder, Blast Off Through the Wicker appeared in July 2017 via Western Vinyl—the same imprint that had already released both Temple’s solo work and albums by his band Here We Go Magic. Touring the United States behind Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier under the Feynman name, he then dropped the Near Negative EP that December. Temple’s own Both-And surfaced on Native Cat Recordings in 2019; two years later, still concealing his features in artwork, Art Feynman returned to Western Vinyl with the entirely solo Half Price at 3:30.
After six years of relative seclusion, Temple shifted to Los Angeles and cut his third Art Feynman album in the studio with other musicians. Portraying the persona as an element of collective consciousness wrestling with everything from FOMO to looming societal breakdown, he pointed to Talking Heads’ Remain in Light, Lizzy Mercier Descloux’s Mambo Nassau, and Grace Jones’ Private Life—each recorded at least in part at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas—as reference points for Be Good the Crazy Boys, which reached Western Vinyl in November 2023.
Albums
Be Good The Crazy Boys
2023
Half Price at 3:30
2020
Near Negative
2017
Blast Off Through the Wicker
2017
Singles
