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

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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Rathborne - Zane Lowe - BBC Radio 1 - Last Forgiven Premiere

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You Let Me In - Luke Rathborne
New York City puts lines on your face
when you feel your body as it starts to break
and you feel like somebody's gonna put you away..

I saw you out on Christopher street
with your head in your hands and your shoes on your feet
and you asked me if some people get caught in between..
the line and nowhere

You let me in
Now I'll never be free again
You let me in
from all the beggars and thieves again

What's the difference between dreaming and dying?
when you told me I thought you was lying
and your holding your eyelids but you can't keep from crying..
your tear drops are streaming

You let me in
Now I'll never be free again
You let me in
from all the beggars and thieves again

You let me in.. (x4)
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piano/vocals - luke rathborne
drums - Tahrah Cohen
cello - julia kent
bass - jason dimatteo
winds - brooklyn philharmonic
brass - dave smoota, paula henderson

PHOTO: Shelby Duncan

You Let Me In

to fall asleep sweetly.
a cover of a cover.
song by luke rathborne.

cold breeze cover

Don't Call Me Baby

I Wish I Was A Bird

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

From the compilation "Forever" out May 2018 on Never Grow Up Records

caleb laven - mixing, additional production
axiom le fou - image, inspiration 
arthur - production

02 Motor City - Luke Rathborne

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