YESTERDAY,
WHEN EVERYTHING
WAS TEMPORARY
Luke-W x Dalskee
June 5 - July 3
6 original artworks.
6 focus tracks.
Scan the QR code in the exhibition space to explore.
6 original works.
6 focus tracks.
Scan the QR code in the exhibition space to explore.
an audio visual experience
06
Let It Burn
The origin story of the love of my life. The certainty that what we'd just found made everything before it make sense. Choosing each other over the opinions of others, over whatever came next.
Let it burn.
01
Caught In A Blaze
The first song on the record. The moment you realise staying is no longer an option, and the urge to run starts before you've worked out where to. The verse is a letter from who I am now to who I was then.
The guidance I needed at the time,
arriving ten years late.
02
Casually
A song about a situationship, and the moment the freedom starts to feel hollow.
You can't expect commitment when you refuse to give yourself fully. You can't have the cake and eat it.
03
Party Alone
The apology Casually refuses to make. Written from second-hand stories about an ex — someone broken in ways that mirrored mine.
Caught between euphoria and isolation,
surrounded by people I couldn't feel.
04
Distance
A text to a summer love. Sent over messenger years later, just to say you've been missed.
An acknowledgement that some things are only meant for a season. Do you ever think about it now?
05
Other Lives
I moved to Bristol because my mother had lived there thirty years earlier. It was a retracing. This song is the shame of feeling like I wasn't living up to her life — and the moment I stopped trying to outrun what I'd lost. The turning point of the record.
The full album is available
digitally on Bandcamp.
About the Artists
About Dalskee
Dallan Milich, who works as Dalskee, is a mixed-media artist from South Auckland, Tāmaki Makaurau. His layered, collage-based work draws from vice, mortality, heartbreak, humour, and his growing connection to his Māori whakapapa.
He builds his pieces from found imagery, old National Geographics, photographs, and fragments gathered from different stages of his life, including his time in London.
The result is work that feels dense, personal, and open-ended. His pieces leave room for contradiction, memory, and the representation of parts of yourself you might not expect to find.
The collaboration follows his 2024 debut solo show, Vices, at Eyes on Fire Gallery. That body of work explored coping mechanisms, mortality, Toitū te Tiriti, time, and the messy ways people try to get through their lives.
His work is closely tied to who he is: loyal, funny, tender, and grounded by a shared Kiwi experience. He doesn't shy away from the more complex and painful parts of life. The long corporate hours, grief, heartbreak, friendship, family, escape, and reprieve. Through it all, he keeps a sense of humour and a clear affection for the people and places that shaped him.
About Luke-W
In 2010, within a single year, Luke-W lost his mother, his aunt, and his poppa. Four years later, his uncle, a man who lived and breathed music, died in a car crash. This accumulation of loss broke something open in Luke, and within months he had dropped out of university, decided he had to give music a real shot, and booked a flight to Bristol.
His music draws on the nostalgia of that period in all its unapologetic force: the permission to break things and move on, to sacrifice tomorrow for the hedonism of now. His new album, Yesterday, When Everything Was Temporary, written ten years after he first left, speaks to his 21-year-old self through fragmented stories that capture those moments vividly and honestly. The sonic world was built alongside producer Andrew Meyer, Luke-W's longtime collaborator, whose production features on every track but one.
Beneath the melodies is a compulsive need to keep moving forward, to make the people who are no longer here proud, and to build something worthy of what it came from. At its core, the work is driven by a need to understand the things that make us who we are: grief, memory, youth, escape, and the perspective that can come years after.
The full album is available
digitally on Bandcamp.
Yesterday, When Everything Was Temporary, a fourteen-track record written ten years after he left New Zealand for Bristol at 21.
He left in the wake of losing his mother, aunt, grandfather and uncle within a four-year span. He moved into a converted malt house turned studio, shared plywood-walled rooms with other musicians, and spent the next stretch of his life chasing something he couldn't yet name. Yesterday, When Everything Was Temporary is a letter back to that version of himself.
The record is alternative R&B built around the writing. Its sonic world was built with producer Andrew Meyer, who features on every track but one. The production is cinematic and synth-driven, but the centre of gravity is the storytelling. An emotional register Luke-W has described as "blissful melancholy. Having all of the feeling of nostalgia and loss, but kind of basking in it, because you know it's a feeling you want to feel."
The album was launched at Allpress Studios in Auckland on June 5, 2026, with a listening party and an exhibition of six original artworks by Auckland mixed-media artist Dalskee, made in response to the record.
"I want people to feel like they went into the world and explored it, and found out something about themselves," Luke-W says. "Something that reflects back onto them and lets them process something they'd been carrying."
Yesterday, When Everything Was Temporary is for people going through that ‘not again feeling’. A breakup, a relocation, a loss, some change that's made them reassess what they're doing. Music for the wheel still turning.
Yesterday, When Everything Was Temporary, is a fourteen-track record written ten years after Luke-W left New Zealand for Bristol at 21.
He left in the wake of losing his mother, aunt, grandfather and uncle within a four-year span. He moved into a converted malt house turned studio, shared plywood-walled rooms with other musicians, and spent the next stretch of his life chasing something he couldn't yet name. Yesterday, When Everything Was Temporary is a letter back to that version of himself.
The record is alternative R&B built around the writing. Its sonic world was built with producer Andrew Meyer, who features on every track but one. The production is cinematic and synth-driven, but the centre of gravity is the storytelling. An emotional register Luke-W has described as "blissful melancholy. Having all of the feeling of nostalgia and loss, but kind of basking in it, because you know it's a feeling you want to feel."
The album was launched at Allpress Studios in Auckland on June 5, 2026, with a listening party and an exhibition of six original artworks by Auckland mixed-media artist Dalskee, made in response to the record.
"I want people to feel like they went into the world and explored it, and found out something about themselves," Luke-W says. "Something that reflects back onto them and lets them process something they'd been carrying."
Yesterday, When Everything Was Temporary is for people going through that ‘not again feeling’. A breakup, a relocation, a loss, some change that's made them reassess what they're doing. Music for the wheel still turning.
About Dalskee
Dallan Milich, who works as Dalskee, is a mixed-media artist from South Auckland, Tāmaki Makaurau. His layered, collage-based work draws from vice, mortality, heartbreak, humour, and his growing connection to his Māori whakapapa.
He builds his pieces from found imagery, old National Geographics, photographs, and fragments gathered from different stages of his life, including his time in London.
The result is work that feels dense, personal, and open-ended. His pieces leave room for contradiction, memory, and the representation of parts of yourself you might not expect to find.
Dallan and Luke are day-one friends from their schooling days in Mt. Roskill.
Music for the wheel still turning.