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Sep 20, 2016 Jamie Lidell By Christopher Roberts Photography by Lindsey Rome

Jamie Lidell is releasing a new album, Building a Beginning, on October 14 via Lidell’s own label, Jajulin. The album’s first single, “Walk Right Back,” now has a video. Leo Lyxxx directed the clip, which a press release describes as “an abstract illustration of a conversation between artist and director about a child’s first memories in the world and the sensory experiences surrounding.” Watch below via NPR, who premiered it.

Building a Beginning is Lidell’s sixth album and the follow-up to 2013’s Jamie Lidell. A press release describes it as Lidell’s most personal album. The album’s second track, “Julian,” is named after Lidell’s young son, his first child. “I wanted to write something that he wants to jump around to,” Lidell says in a press release. Lidell’s wife, artist and onetime Under the Radar photographer Lindsey Rome, co-wrote the album’s lyrics and also took his press photos.

The album also features: Pino Palladino (bass, D’Angelo, Gary Numan, Elton John, Peter Gabriel, Eric Clapton), DaRu Jones (drums, Jack White), Pat Sansone (multi-instrumentalist, Wilco), Kudisan Kai, Traci Brown Bailey, and Tiffany Smith (backup-vocals, Chaka Khan), production from Justin Stanley (Beck, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Paul McCartney) and Ben Ash (Two Inch Punch), and mixing from Jake Aron (Le1f, Fort Lean).

Also read our 2013 Self-Portrait interview with Lidell.

Jamie Lidell and The Royal Pharaohs Tour Dates:

18 Oct Nijmegen, NLD oornroosje
20-Oct Brussels, Belgium Brussels AB
21-Oct Paris, France Trianon
22-Oct Hamburg, Germany Uebel & Gefaehrich
23-Oct Berlin, Germany Astra
25-Oct Amsterdam, NL Paradiso
26-Oct Brighton, UK Concorde 2
27-Oct London, UK koko
28-Oct Manchester, UK Gorilla
30-Oct Cologne, Germany Kantine
31-Oct Munich, Germany Technikum
1-Nov Zurich, Switzerland Kaufleuten
2 Nov Berne, Switzerland Bierhebeli
4 Nov Linz, AustriaAhoi Pop Festival