We Are Temporary, the wired and weird brainchild of Brooklyn’s Mark Roberts, is as much the result of a musical obsession as a philosophical one. Drawing from influences in contemporary electronic music, dream pop, darkwave, industrial, ambient, and post-rock, his music oscillates between tenderness and violence, confessionalism and vitriol, bursts of optimism and nihilism. Featured in outlets such as The Village Voice and Brooklyn Vegan, his sound and intensity have been compared to bands like Fever Ray, Crystal Castles, iamamiwhoami, Black Marble, Light Asylum, Active Child, and Gesaffelstein.