New Orleans soul-rocker Benjamin Booker is a few weeks away from the discharge of Decrease, his first album in seven years, and he’s stepping into a distinct course on this one. After showing on Armand Hammer’s single “Doves” final yr, Booker recorded Decrease with the prolific indie-rap producer Kenny Segal. Segal’s summary boom-bap lends a really completely different feeling to what was as soon as an actual throwback sound.
Final yr, Booker introduced Decrease with lead single “LWA In The Trailer Park.” In the present day, he drops the video for the hushed and beatific “Gradual Dance In The Homosexual Bar.” It’s received a black-and-white video during which Booker drives across the French Quarter, and Booker co-directed it with Gerry Cisneros. Right here’s what Booker says concerning the track and video:
You recognize, typically you end up in a dying gap, surrounded by bones and rotting flesh. It looks like each second is a shovel-full of grime flung in your head—the worms are laughing at you, hungry, able to eat.
However then, out of nowhere, the not possible occurs. A ladder seems. You climb up and the world you knew earlier than is totally completely different. The colours are extra saturated. The solar shines brighter and the air smells candy like honey.
This track is about that.
We shot this video within the French Quarter earlier than the assault. I’d wish to dedicate it to the victims.
Test it out beneath.
Decrease is out 1/24 on Booker’s personal Fireplace Subsequent Time Data, by way of Thirty Tigers.
