Benjamin Booker’s ‘Lower’ Is The Best And Bleakest Album Of 2025

Benjamin Booker’s ‘Lower’ Is The Best And Bleakest Album Of 2025

Trenity Thomas/Merle Cooper Benjamin Booker’s third album wakes up in a cold sweat, its narrator gripped by paranoia in the American surveillance state while a booming backbeat pounds at his temples. It ends with a hopeless alcoholic swearing to himself that tomorrow will be different instead of exactly like the night before. In between, Booker addresses homelessness, the psychosexual underpinnings of slavery and adopts a pitch-shifted, demonic …