Luke Temple - A Hand Through the Cellar Door (2016)

A Hand Through the Cellar Door is, in many ways, Temple's most straightforward collection of song-storying tunes to date. There are tales of dysfunctional, broken homes and of dysfunctional, broken people. "Birds of Late December," with its fluttering, nimble fingerpicking, paints an exacting but impressionistic portrait of divorce through the eyes of an exceptionally wistful child. In both "Maryanne Was Quiet" and "The Case of Louis Warren" we follow two characters whose lives unravel in very different ways, though their central question is the same: After you shed all the things you think make you who you are, what is left? Temple is creating small, confident stories with a massive scope. Yes, while the tales Temple weaves are bleak,the aura of hope never quite fades from the picture. He turns thetragedies of humanfolly into a celebration of our eccentricities.

TRACKLIST
01. Estimated World 03:14
02. The Birds of Late December 03:15
03. Maryanne Was Quiet 06:15
04. Smashing Glass 04:57
05. The Case of Louis Warren 07:45
06. The Complicated Men of the 1940s 04:26
07. Ordinary Feeling 05:36
08. The Masterpiece Is Broken 04:57