Benjamin Booker
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- “POMPEII STATUES”
- “SAME KIND OF LONELY”
- “REBECCA LATIMER FELTON TAKES A BBC”
- “SLOW DANCE IN A GAY BAR”
Benjamin Booker‘s new album pulls no punches, sonically or lyrically. LOWER is his first full-length album in eight years, and it will sometimes disorient you, nook you and make you sit in discomfort. It is also completely magnetic.
Booker’s calling playing cards for the album weren’t an apparent pair: Mobb Deep and The Jesus and Mary Chain. Co-produced by esteemed beatmaker Kenny Segal, LOWER is a report that Booker stated he could not have made a decade in the past.
On this session, he talks about why he thinks that ought to all the time be the purpose. Booker additionally talks about his minimalist strategy to manufacturing and the way parenthood spurred him to put in writing a tune about gun violence.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.
