Black Pumas Share Catchy ‘Ice Cream (Pay Phone)’ Single & Add New Tour Dates

Black Pumas unveiled a new single/video, “Ice Cream (Pay Phone).” The track is set for the Austin-based band’s highly-anticipated new album, Chronicles of a Diamond, due out this Friday, October 27 via ATO Records.

Due to popular demand, Black Pumas also added tour dates to their trek around the new record. The band tacked on a fresh date on December 3 to their hometown run in Austin at ACL Live at The Moody Theater. The band also added a new show on January 25 at Chicago’s Salt Shed.

Tickets for the new dates go on sale Friday, October 27 at 10 a.m. local time.

Vocalist and guitarist Eric Burton wrote and co-produced Black Pumas’ latest Chronicles of a Diamond single “Ice Cream (Pay Phone)” before further developing the song with bassist/keyboardist Josh Blue in an impromptu early morning session.

“When left alone I tend to work in an unorthodox way, where the colors don’t go together quite like you’d expect them to,” Burton, whose lyrics incorporate a classic jump-rope rhyme, said of the track. “With that song the big, distorted guitar doesn’t seem like it should work with how I’m singing, but it sounded so soulful in a way that felt just right to me.”

Black Pumas guitarist/producer Adrian Quesada then took the song to the finish line.

“A lot of Eric’s ideas lately have had a meditative quality, where all these repetitive motifs are happening in the background while the song changes around them,” Quesada added. “As soon as I heard ‘Ice Cream’ I loved it, because it was so radically different from anything we’d done before, or anything I would’ve come up with on my own.”

Check out the music video shot on location in Austin and directed by Alan del Rio Ortiz: