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But from the outside listening in, this evolution of Luke Hemmings preludes something certain, something great, the mature height of a teenage rebel. I’ve always maintained that an artist's best work comes around 30, and this moment surrounding Luke, his upcoming music, brims and shimmers with omen and hope. He's not a boy with a microphone anymore; he’s married, he works on two musical projects, he tours regularly. But his next chapter, I believe, will be the one that lasts for Luke: if all follows, the sort of music that stays eternally new, eternally fresh, forever young.

LUKE HEMMINGS Photographed by Savanna Ruedy for LADYGUNN Magazine (2024)

Luke wrote many of these songs in transit, in hotel rooms and planes. Tours are testing for him emotionally, particularly as a singer (he needs all the vocal rest he can get, so he ends up not talking much). "'Shakes,' is sort of that point you get to emotionally where you’re just not really thinking or seeing clearly. Just talking and acting out of emotion," he says. "I can be a bit of a pessimist. But that's kind of why I wanted to be dreamy, and verging on a love song as well, because you just want to get back to your safe space."

LUKE HEMMINGS Photographed by Savanna Ruedy for LADYGUNN Magazine (2024)

"I was toying with a lot of pitch vocals and writing from different perspectives. I really wanted to walk this line, of doing this melancholy thing," he tells me. "When you're listening to the song, it's not so much a happy or sad song. It's wherever you meet the song, I suppose." He laughs and then demurs, "Which sounds a bit artsy — artsy fartsy."

LUKE HEMMINGS Photographed by Savanna Ruedy for LADYGUNN Magazine (2024)

The result is that his lot, put into the band’s work, is a richly developed, confidently Luke contribution, and at the same time, he can give space for his bandmates’ contributions since he lets off artistic steam in his solo stuff. "For me, it’s a way for the band to last forever," he says touchingly in his Aussie accent.

LUKE HEMMINGS Photographed by Savanna Ruedy for LADYGUNN Magazine (2024)