It’s about the feeling. Raw emotions associated with love that boil down to passion and even erotica. Performing two consecutive, sold-out nights at New York City’s SOBs, Luke James is flying high on the curtails of his self-titled debut. Sticking to his R&B chops, the NAWLINS-bred crooner has stacked the anticipation high ahead of his album dropping singles that evoked a separate type of sensation but all united by its message of love.

There are levels to relationships that can make us belt out in the bliss of not knowing one another like in his playful “Dancing In The Dark” or a warning we are familiar with like in his interlude “Don’t Do It” but then there’s the pain of heartbreak we never saw coming captured in “Exit Wounds.” Beyoncé’s former opening act sings it all.

Luke James takes us to varying levels of ecstasy, find out why the rising star focuses on the vulnerable emotions hidden in our hearts on the following pages and purchase the album on iTunes. – Alley Olivier