With his playful, nature-bound alter ego, Art Feynman, Luke Temple has so far offered an unpredictable, experimental patchwork of folktronica, Krautrock inspirations, global rhythms, Talking Heads-inspired art pop / rock, environmental field recordings, themes relating to the collective consciousness, and so on.
His fourth Art Feynman album, Orphans, surprises again with a 13-track set of mostly instrumentals. While intended as background music, this is Luke Temple after all, and the songs nevertheless hold an allure all their own. The solo LP starts off with a pair of simple, sparse recordings made up of understated yet bittersweet keyboard melodies over sustained chords, and components like time-keeping bass, nature sounds,…