Luke Hemmings has released his new EP, “boy,” co-produced with Sammy Witte. The seven-track EP offers a sense of maturity, growth, and humanity. The official visual EP features all seven tracks and premiered globally on YouTube at midnight. Hemmings also released his single “Benny,” a deeply felt ode to family and the loss of a life lived on their periphery. Fans expect the album to be highly anticipated.

“The song is about guilt. I spend a lot of time away from my family and live in a different country than theirs.  As you get older and life moves on, things happen at home and it’s the guilt of not being there and missing moments.  It’s hard to miss the good moments, but even harder to miss the bad moments. You can’t be there to fix it all and be there for the ones you love,” revealed Hemmings. Watch here.

Boy’s seven dynamic new tracks showcase Hemmings’ lyrical and sonic evolution right from the start with the EP’s opener, “I’m Still Your Boy.” Launching with the hazy strum of an acoustic guitar and lashings of stacked vocal tracks, the production ebbs outwards, contracting for the pre-chorus before exploding out on the chorus, Hemmings, mantra like, repeating the phrase: “I’m still your boy.” Lyrically, the track anchors the EP’s larger narrative theme of the liminal space between youth and adulthood. Guided by an introspective Hemmings, still grappling to hold on to his fading boyhood, each subsequent song draws listeners further into the artists dreamlike realm where themes of youth’s departure, fear, solitude, and hope reverberate powerfully throughout the project.

When asked about the inspiration for boy, Hemmings explains, “The majority of the songs for boy were written at a time in my life when I was a stranger to stillness. The songs were born on planes and hotel room notepads, muttering under my breath while walking through new cities daily.  I was disoriented and overwhelmed by the world and my place in it. Those emotions weaved themselves through this project. The longing for more emotional understanding within myself, the isolation, grief, love, sadness, and hope. They’re not intended to be consumed as autobiographical facts but as an overly dramatic, cathartic, poetic stream of consciousness. As if you’ve opened my diary and can only read a line from each page.”

boy Track List

  • I’m Still Your Boy
  • Shakes
  • Benny
  • Close My Eyes
  • Garden Life
  • Close Enough to Feel You
  • Promises

Today’s multiple releases not only usher in a new and exciting sonic era for Luke Hemmings and his fans around the world but also lay testament to an evolving artist who, as Dork Magazine proclaimed, “bares his introverted soul, creating a love letter to nostalgia and a quest for self-discovery.”

Buy/stream here. Catch the new single “Benny” here. Watch out the visual EP premiere on YouTube at midnight here.