Luke Temple’s Hungry Animal moves between the personal and the cosmic, exploring what we feel, witness, and inherit. Reuniting with Doug Stuart and Kosta Galanopoulos of his Cascading Moms ensemble, Temple shapes songs that balance rhythmic focus with a gentle, handmade looseness. Clean Living opens with a tender groove that dismantles myths of purity and self-discipline, embracing the inevitability of imperfection. Echo Park Donut shifts to an unsettling moment outside Temple’s Los Angeles home, carried by a quiet pulse that mirrors the strange mix of distance and immediacy in fear. The title track brings the album’s themes into view, circling ideas of instinct, affection, and how little of ourselves we can ever fully explain. Stuart’s melodic basslines and Galanopoulos’s breathing drums give the trio a light yet grounded motion. Across Hungry Animal, Temple builds a space where reflection moves, feelings sharpen, and the everyday becomes quietly expansive.