Half Price At 3:30 - Vinyle Rouge

Description

Art Feynman, the new alias of talented artist and producer Luke Temple (Here We Go Magic), assembles art-pop, Nigerian highlife, worldbeat, and other lesser-known genres into a musical patchwork that reveals his playful and eccentric songwriting. On his second album, Half Price at 3:30, he delivers songs that bring a smile while revealing the emotional chasms hidden behind seemingly mundane and often underestimated situations. Just as he effortlessly embodies his Art Feynman persona, he also slips into the skin of other personalities, living or fictional. While his previous productions as Luke Temple and Here We Go Magic used organic timbres even when venturing far from guitar/drum shores, this time on Half Price he uses drum machines, a slightly more polished production, and even autotune with an elegant balance that suggests they have always been part of his musical arsenal. The result affectionately evokes the recordings of predecessors like Francis Bebey, Arthur Russell, and Haruomi Hosono in its musicological detail, but it is Art Feynman's hard-won creativity that resonates above all, pushing Half Price at 3:30 forward rather than towards a nostalgic past.