Product Description
Benjamin Booker – Lower (Clear Vinyl)
RELEASE DATE: 24th January 2024
Benjamin Booker announces, LOWER, his first new album in 7 years. The album, co-produced by Booker with underground hip-hop mastermind Kenny Segal (Armand Hammer, billy woods), finds the New Orleans-based artist mixing experimental and lo-fi hip hop, dream and noise pop, ambient and indie rock into something that is entirely his own.
Through the changes, Booker’s lyrical self-exploration of pain and longing have been
persistent, exploring themes of isolation, anger, race and spirituality in the modern age. While his previous releases dabbled in fuzzy americana-inspired garage rock and 70’s glam, LOWER presents a grittier and raw sound that Booker had been searching for for years while digging into niche music scenes and ultimately filtering them through his unique pop lens. “I wanted to get to this sound, but I didn’t know how. At some point I decided I’m going to find it or die trying.” Booker credits Segal as instrumental to this search, trading stems via email while Booker was in Australia. “Kenny was the missing piece I needed–he fills in all of my gaps. I don’t know what I’ll do next, but if I can imagine it, I can do it now.”
Tracklist:
1. Black Opps
2. LWA In The Trailer Park
3. Pompeii Statues
4. Slow Dance In A Gay Bar
5. Speaking With The Dead
6. Rebecca Latimer Felton Takes A BBC
7. New World
8. Same Kind Of Lonely
9. Show And Tell
10. Heavy On My Mind
11. Hope For The Night
