DEKKER TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM: ‘FUTURE GHOSTS’ COMING 1 MARCH 2024

Written during that period of the 2020s where Covid was finally in retreat, but a whole new era of uncertainty was dawning, Dekker found himself consumed by a foreboding sense of mortality, family anxieties, and what the future may bring.

“I began writing this album when my daughter asked, “what happens to us when we die?” I told her that I didn’t exactly know and that we should begin searching together for an answer. It was at that moment that we wrote together what would become this album’s title track “Future Ghosts”. Somehow I knew I had just set a tone for the record; thoughtful, melancholic, not overly indulgent and with a little more of a lived-in feeling than my previous work” reflects Dekker. 

While wrought from a deeply personal time of soul searching and self reflection for Dekker, the ten songs that comprise ‘Future Ghosts’ stand as some of the most universally human he has created to date. While many of the songs touch on the shared feelings of pain, loss, and disorientation we all feel, the record is not one that seeks to dwell on the morbid or sorrowful. Instead it is one that finds an artist embracing their purpose in life and how they influence our journey through it, as we grapple with its many mysteries.

“It’s about going through hard things and learning that you can do hard things” he adds. “In these songs you can also find something like faith and the kind of love that makes you do weird things.”

Reconnecting with his long-time collaborator Stefan Wittich (drummer/co-producer) at his Berlin studio in 2022, the pair began formulating his ideas for ‘Future Ghosts’.  Writing and demoing his latest creations over an extended recording period, the process was slow at first. But patience is a virtue that soon began to pay in dividends as a series of sublime, subtle songs began to bloom into being. As Dekker relates:
“When we set up to record drums initially, it was a very basic four mic set-up. It was exciting to be limiting ourselves in this way and experimenting with sounds. Whilst I was trying different guitars and recording techniques Stefan was tweaking and adorning tracks with various percussive elements. I’m an impatient creator. I’m not one to sit and dwell on details and I don’t like waiting during the creative process. Saying that, there were long lived-in periods of months between many of the steps taken on this album – for very human reasons. I see now, that time did the album well and helped to provide the very lived-in feel I had hoped to achieve.”
Reaching out to Zach Hanson, who has offered his expertise to acts such as Bon Iver to The Staves, to Whitney, the studio talent added his distinctive sheen to the record with its final mixing and mastering. 

‘Future Ghosts’ will feature the warmly received singles including “I Know, I Know”, “I Won’t”, “For Repair”, “Hero Myth” and “Too Young To Die”, plus new release ‘Popped The Top’. The album will be released on 1st March 2024.

American singer-songwriter Brookln Dekker, better known by his musical moniker Dekker and one half of the duo Rue Royale, has amassed a steadily growing global audience, international radio support and over 75 million streams to-date. Having released his debut album ‘Slow Reveal: Chapter One’ in 2020, Dekker returned with ‘I Won’t Be Your Foe’ in 2022, and will swiftly follow it with ‘Future Ghosts’ this March.

Along with his first spins on BBC 6 Music and a successful headline tour last year, demand in the UK for Dekker is soaring and he will return for a special release show at The Lexington in London on 1st March. Tickets are on sale now.

DEKKER – UK LIVE SHOWS
1st March – LONDON The Lexington – * Album Launch Show * – TICKETS

 

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