Double EP now available on iTunes
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dog-years-ep/id422377636
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-can-be-one-ep/id422495580

Luke Rathborne writes songs about life, and life is rarely simple, neat and easy. 
On his I Can Be One / Dog Years split-EP, to be released March 8 via Dilettante Recordings, the singer-songwriter defies today’s cookie cutter flavors, preferring to hold true to his artistic vision – a vision that embraces the zen of Leonard Cohen and the weathered tone of Bob Dylan, basking both in a heady aura of dialed-down pop exuberance.   

Luke Rathborne shimmers, because his songs emit an incandescent glow as warm and inviting as they are naked and vulnerable. It’s not about finding answers to life’s questions, it’s about shedding light on life’s experiences. Seeing how they make us better for the wear while they ruffle us around the edges. 
“Hopefully, people will see the difference in the music here,” says the 23 year-old troubadour of his ambitious release. “They are two groups of songs that belong with each other, but not necessarily together.  As an artist, you really have to think about the way you’re putting a record together, and it’s got to be done in a way that interests people – if you think, in your gut, that you’re just going to smash songs together and call them a record…  that’s just material, that’s not a record.”

Rather than muddling his music’s disparate take on the world around him, attempting to intertwine songs written under different circumstances and in different frames of mind, Rathborne decided to offer audiences his ideal window into his headscape – two EPs, each unique in their own right, as one album.

Dog Years embraces Rathborne’s more pop aesthetic  – not shiny, happy pop, but effervescent, melancholic pop. The title track offers a cynical poke to not letting the ‘dog years’ pass you by, and if you hear a bit of Dylan in the New Yorker’s tone, you aren’t mistaken. He also cites a lot of ‘60s and ‘70s music like the Kinks and the Beatles as impacting those early tracks, written as a teenager in Maine.

The material from the second set, I Can Be One, was penned following Rathborne's move to New York City after high school and completed with members of Antony and the Johnsons contributing to the arrangements.  Big Star and Lou Reed’s Berlin enter the realm of influences, and the material takes on a somber, darker hue. “Motor City” elicits a somber sense of pining, while closing track “Solon Town” is an arching epic that bridges Rathbornes rural roots with his transplanted Brooklyn home.  Its title track, "I Can Be One," is one of the tracks that led Devendra Banhart to invite him on tour and exclaim, "I love this young dude," in a recent Magnet piece.

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I Can Be One E.P. - Luke Rathborne

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*Lyrics*
With the last breath of our angels
We take final steps.
And I lay him down
On those killing fields
Where nameless kneel.

If I could. 
If I could
I'd fuck it up.
If I could.
If I could
I'd be enough.
If I could.

Did her last kiss cut you deep enough,
With so little lust.
Did your tears fall like
Your unborn child's.
With her perfect eyes.

If I could.
If I could 
I'd break your heart.
If I could.
If I could.

Good women lie down with losers everyday.
I'll take him to the killing fields lay him down nameless. Deserving.
I swear I saw my child in her eyes.
I swear I've seen his tears in boys eyes.
In boys eyes.

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Kawai Celeste

S. Carey - Crown The Pines

Released Friday 4 December 2015.

Originally written and performed by Joni Mitchell.

Guitar: Connor McDonald 
Piano: Jake Edwards-Wood 
Vocals + Production: Robyn Sherwell

River

Adelaide

Leaves

Far from Home

Released 24th Nov 2017
Written & produced by Pip Hall
My Little Empire Records
"Turning doubt into dreaminess" - DIY
"Her voice as mesmerising as ever" - John Kennedy - Radio X
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Q7wwPrb3Qlg
Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2mVdz8C
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2i0r45c
iTunes: http://apple.co/2jUWhHG

Ill At Ease

I Can Be One

Motor City - Luke Rathborne Release T.B.A. Recorded at Looking Glass Studios with Maxim Moston, Julia Kent, and T.Cohen

02 Motor City - Luke Rathborne

Solon Town - Luke Rathborne - I Can Be One E.P.

04 Solon Town - Luke Rathborne

Sun shines 
Over the hill where she lies
He waits at the only stoplight,
Turns the dial on the radio

It’s an old song, 
Born of a time that’s long gone
The kind that this town was built on

Pretty ribbons come untied, 
You find that you waited here too long.
Does it come as a surprise to find 
that what you love is gone?

The cafe 
is just filling up on Sunday,
The waitress is doing OK

Pretty ribbons come untied, 
You find that you waited here too long.
Does it come as a surprise to find 
that what you love is gone?

Do you ever get tired? 
Do you ever get lost?
Do you ever play a part you didn’t choose?

Do you ever get tired?
Do you ever get lost?
Do you ever run back to the things you knew?

Pretty ribbons come untied, 
You find that you waited here too long.
Does it come as a surprise to find 
that what you love is gone?

Guitar + Piano - Jack DeMeo
Trumpet - Stephen Davis
Bass - Cyrus Elia
Production - Two Spoons
Mixing + Mastering - Jacob Chabon
Album art - Bella Porter

Original song by Grace and Jack!

I Can Be One

Luke Rathborne

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