Luke performs surreal, minimalist folk-rock as Cornflake Sunset.
His debut album, Double Portrait, was released in 2024.
Cornflake Sunset songs are a sort of rusty, literary folk-rock—absurd, intertextual, minimalist. On Double Portrait, Luke is joined by award-winning double bassist, Helen Svoboda, renowned percussionist Maria Moles and avant-jazz saxophonist Thomas Coleman Bell.
Luke has played intermittently in Melbourne for over a decade with artists like Ryan Downey, Sarah Mary Chadwick, Nicola Watson and Grand Salvo (sometimes as New Archer, sometimes as Cornflake Sunset) but the writing of books distracted him from recording songs.
Critics have described his writing as ‘hyper-vivid epiphanies’, ‘language made deliciously strange’ and ‘surreal paths of flight, shaping into strange and self-referential swirls, leaving you disoriented but transformed’.
The same could be said of these strange songs that have the lyrical precision of the Silver Jews, the wackiness of Stephen Malkmus' Pavement, the minimalist instrumentation of Bill Callahan or Aldous Harding, sung in a voice that sits somewhere between Neil Young, Loudon Wainwright III, Devendra Banhart and Magnolia Electric Co.'s Jason Molina.