Snowbeast

An artist turned musician, Temple seemingly discovered that a four-track layers audio the same way an artist slathers paint, though the former offered him endless chances for reconfiguration.

Luke Temple raises impossible expectations for his second LP by opening Snowbeast with one of 2007's best songs, "Saturday People," a trilling, rolling, delightfully disjointed indie-folk anthem packed with nonsense words delivered in a rangy, angelic voice. That voice—along with Temple's supple banjo-picking—will…

Discover Snowbeast by Luke Temple released in 2007. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

We start with the good: Luke Temple's voice is still a wondrous instrument, a pure tenor that evokes a smoothed out Neil Young.