Luke Temple

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Luke Temple is an American pop-folk singer-songwriter, born in Salem, Massachusetts. He is an alumnus of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. While living in New York, making a living by painting murals in wealthy New Yorkers' apartments,^[1] he released a four song self-titled EP, recorded entirely on a four-track recorder. With this, he was signed to Mill Pond Records in Seattle, Washington. Sufjan Stevens has said he "has one of the most beautiful voices in pop music."^[2]

His first CD, Hold A Match to a Gasoline World, released late in 2005, took "Make Right With You" and "In the End" from his EP, and expanded it to an 11 song album. Rolling Stone described Hold a Match to a Gasoline World as "a collection of songs that even the most jaded anti-folk hipster could catch himself humming on the street."^[3]

His song "Make Right With You" was featured in an episode of Grey's Anatomy, season 3's "Where the Boys Are". In June of 2007, Temple supported the band Guster for three dates in London.

His second album, Snowbeast, was released on August 21st. Nine months prior to release, he had several songs for it available both on his MySpace page [1] and on his official website. The Onion A.V. Club gave the album an A-, describing the opening song, "Saturday People," as "one of 2007's best songs...a trilling, rolling, delightfully disjointed indie-folk anthem packed with nonsense words delivered in a rangy, angelic voice."^[4]