Benjamin Booker Confirms 2025 Winter Tour Dates & 1st New Album In 7 Years

Singer-songwriter and guitarist Benjamin Booker detailed his first new album in seven years, LOWER, due out on January 24, 2025 via his new Fire Next Time Records and previewed with the single “LWA IN THE TRAILER PARK.” The New Orleans-based artist will also embark on his first headline tour in seven years around the new record.

Booker co-produced LOWER with underground hip-hop mastermind Kenny Segal (Armand Hammer, billy woods). The record marks Booker’s first studio effort since 2017’s Witness.

Press materials described LOWER:

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.

Booker credits his new sound to his collaboration with Kenny Segal.

“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,” he said. “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.”

Benjamin also weighed in on the music video for lead single “LWA IN THE TRAILER PARK.”

“I felt particularly connected to Paul Schrader’s work making this album,” Booker explained. “Like several of his movies, I wanted to look at a troubled character on the edge, reaching for transcendence. Now that I’m working on a series of connected videos, Schrader has had an influence in that arena as well, along with Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai and Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep.”

Watch the music video for “LWA IN THE TRAILER PARK” below:

Booker kicks off his 2025 North American Winter Tour around LOWER, with support from Kenny Segal, on February 2 in San Diego. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Brooklyn, Atlanta and Nashville are among the stops on the trek. The tour wraps on March 7 in Booker’s native New Orleans.

Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, October 18 at 10 a.m. local.

LOWER 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