We spend a lot of time at IGIF listening to music. Listening, listening, and listening. Sometimes just for a few seconds (before we press the “delete” key in iTunes), sometimes with one song on repeat over and over again until it’s burned into our cochleas. It’s a rare moment when a friend can recommend a band I haven’t at least heard of (that’s not bragging, seriously, it sucks). Occasionally I miss the boat by a few days, or a few months, and sometimes, like in the case with Luke Temple, I miss it by years. In the case of “Make Right With You,” four of them to be exact. That’s two-fifths of a decade.
Forgive me if I’m preaching to the choir. If you’re already familiar with this simply stunning three minute tune, you can scroll down to the next article — I mean you no disrespect. But for those who haven’t listened to much of Luke Temple’s solo recordings; for those, like me, who discovered Temple through Here We Go Magic and are just beginning to sink in, listen to this. Listen over, and over, and over again.
[MP3] Luke Temple – Make Right With You
Honesty and authenticity in music is increasingly becoming somewhat of a moot point. An argument can be made that studio trickery conceals the reality and claustrophobia of man’s limitations, that auto-tune masks lacks of talent and musical ingenuity, that computers create and sequence beats, and that hoping for even just a smidgen of originality is simply naïve. Take away the tricks, take away the computers. Offer a small room, a four track, a guitar. See what happens. Strip a band naked and watch it shrink in fear.
Give Luke Temple a guitar, a four track, a small room. Give him time. Give him your time. If you’re looking for honesty, if you’re looking for authenticity, if you still hold onto that once limitless belief that originality still exists in some perverse, intangible form, that it might still be possible… you just might find those seemingly unbelievable qualities in this song.
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