Ginger Root – the California-based project of Cameron Lew – has announced a new album, SHINBANGUMI, which arrives on September 13. It marks his third LP and first for new label home Ghostly International. Lead single ‘No Problems’ is out today; check it out and see the album cover and tracklist below.
Since his first release in 2017, which he described as “aggressive elevator soul,” Lew has unlocked “exactly what Ginger Root should sound and feel like.” With SHINBANGUMI, he explained, “In terms of instrumentation and musicality, it’s the first time that I felt very confident and comfortable with what everything should be comprised of. On the more personal side, I’m coming out of the last four years of writing, touring, and living as a different person; SHINBANGUMI is a platform to showcase my new self.”
Of ‘No Problems’, he added: “All the sonic logos of Ginger Root are in this song. I was in the midst of writing a ton of new songs that all felt like I was forcing them to be something that they weren’t. I wrote ‘No Problems’ without expectations or templates to inform its sound, and the result was a track that came out as an unapologetically Ginger Root-esque song. In a lot of ways it is a great mirror of what SHINBANGUMI became – a project where I finally found confidence in what I was doing rather than finding myself imitating others.”
SHINBANGUMI Cover Artwork:
SHINBANGUMI Tracklist:
1. Welcome
2. No Problems
3. Better Than Monday
4. There Was A Time
5. All Night
6. CM
7. Only You
8. Kaze
9. Giddy Up
10. Think Cool
11. Show 10
12. Take Me Back (Owakare No Jikan)
