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Civil Interview: Luke James Is All About The Feeling

Posted on September 25th, 2014
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If you had to choose the sexiest record on the album, which one would that be fore you?

Luke James: They’re all sexy. I can’t do that. They all have different moods, different feelings but they all possess a different kind of sexy you need. Vulnerability, passion, love, pleasure – just erotic.

What makes you want to capture those specific emotions?

Luke James: It’s true. It’s honest. It’s human nature. It’s everything that we all desire, I mean I don’t know anything but I can only go by what I feel. We all want something and ultimately its like love. Whether it be love for a job, love for another person, family, an animal, life – we want our world to be filled with love and love comes in different shades.

So for a track like “Don’t Do It” was the inspiration tied to a specific “pretty girl?”

Luke James: Yes, it was a specific girl. The arrangement that you hear in the back, I guess the rhythmic and the harmonies are all vocals. All me, no music logic or anything like that. I got that feeling when I was on riding the B train. It was just an idea I recorded on my phone then got to Blast Off studios and recorded it. The feeling just came over me of what it is I wanted to say. The rhythm kind’ve feels like something classic. I just wanted it to be something fun and true and honest and just spit what was on my mind.

Even in the arrangements of how the music flows starting with “Love XYZ,” then to an interlude like “Don’t Do It” which is followed by “Trouble,” what was the process like creating the storyline for the album?

Luke James: Sitting down with Danger just really trying to figure it out because its all about a mood and a feeling. What is it that you want people to get from the first track, the first song. “Love XYZ” just when I first heard that music it just felt like the transition into life. Something fun, in a car with the top down going down FDR just all green lights, no cops around and you’re just like riding. Hair flowing and you just feel so good. You want to make sure you have the different transitions in an album that it doesn’t get boring and it doesn’t suck the air out the room it puts air in the room.

What was one of the harder tracks to record?

Luke James: “I Want You.” Where it derived from, the feeling of what I was initially trying to do just ultimately came out to be something real, something even deeper than where I expected it to go. Just wanting to be honest rather than my initial thought which was to do something I already felt and heard before. It didn’t pan out that way. It was something completely new and different and fresh and passionate. I wasn’t planning on being that way so it just happened.

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