Le1f’s much anticipated debut studio album comes out this Friday and we can’t wait. Dude has already treated our eyes to the fun video for “Koi” and our ears to “Rage” and now he’s shared “Umami/Water” produced by Lunice and Evian Christ. In an interview with Complex Le1f told them the story behind the track…
I got this beat from Lunice, and I was really inspired to make a song dedicated to my friend Juliana Huxtable. There was a lot of talk in political media, as well as clickbait, about transgender issues. Feeling like I wasn’t educated and sensitive enough to trans issues, I wanted to correct that for myself, so I delved a bit more into educating myself on the struggle and a lot of the issues that are happening in the trans community. You know, really just knowing the names of victims and all this transphobic brutality and assaults. It’s a multi-faceted issue and also a beautiful thing. I felt that I needed to do that because so many of my favorite people are trans, particularly Juliana Huxtable. She’s one of my favorite artists in general.
Listen to “Umami/Water” above. Riot Boi is out November 13th via Terrible Records. Pre-order it here.