Benjamin Booker has returned with new single “Same Kind Of Lonely,” the track is off the artist’s first new album in 7 years, entitled Lower. The LP, was co-produced by Booker with cutting edge hip-hop artists Kenny Segal (Armand Hammer, billy woods), is due January 24, 2025 on Fire Next Time Records via Thirty Tigers.

Of the song and video Booker says “I was thinking a lot about existence and the natural world—how things that start off so beautiful are often twisted into something unsettling or sinister. Maybe the disconnect between the natural state of things and the modified state of things is the source of a lot of pain, suffering and loneliness in the world.

For this video, one of the things we were interested in looking at is our twisting and distortion of ourselves and the world. The co-director, Gerry Cisneros, and I tried to express this idea through visuals—slowly turning algae on a lake into digital needles or having eyes appear in trees. We wanted to take nature and find ways to manipulate it. We were inspired by Haitian Vodou ceremonies, the paintings of Paul Gaugin, Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England, and Andrei Tarkovsky.”

BENJAMIN BOOKER
LOWER
TRACK LIST:

​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

Benjamin Booker 2025 Tour Dates

2/2 – San Diego, CA – Soda Bar *
/4 – Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room *
2/5 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room*
2/6 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel *
2/8 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios *
2/9 – Seattle, WA – Madame Lou’s *
2/10 – Boise, ID – Neurolux *
2/11 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge *
2/13 – Denver, CO – Marquis Theatre *
2/15 – Omaha, NE – Reverb Lounge *
2/16 – Minneapolis, MN – Turf Club *
2/18 – Chicago, IL – Subterranean *
2/19 – Detroit, MI – Magic Bag *
2/21 – Toronto, ON – Longboat Hall *
2/22 – Montreal, QC – L’Esco *
2/23 – Boston, MA – Crystal Ballroom *
2/25 – Brooklyn, NY – Public Records *
2/26 – Brooklyn, NY – Public Records *
2/27 – Philly, PA – Kung Fu Necktie *
2/28 – Washington, DC – Union Stage *
3/2 – Asheville, NC – Eulogy *
3/3 – Atlanta, GA – Aisle 5 *
3/5 – Nashville, TN – 3rd and Lindsley *
3/7 – New Orleans, LA – Siberia *

* with Kenny Segal

Pre-order Lower HERE