Le1f Shares New Track "Umami/Water", Produced by Lunice and Evian Christ

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Le1f ‘s debut studio album Riot Boi arrives this Friday (November 13) on Terrible. After dropping the SOPHIE-produced “Koi” and the Balam Acab-produced “Rage”, he’s shared another track from the album, “Umami/Water”. It was produced by Lunice and Evian Christ and can be streamed below via Complex.

Speaking with Complex, Le1f expounded on the inspiration for the new track: his friend, artist Juliana Huxtable, and the transgender community:

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.

It came around the time where she had that amazing series of pieces and collaborations in the Whitney Biennial. She attended Bard College and booked me for some of my first shows, before I put the “1” in my name. We’ve been friends for a really long time, so to see her transition into the most amazing human being…I just wanted to make a song that would make her the most proud, and would be helpful for the trans community at large but also my friends who are trans.

Read our interview with Le1f.

Watch Le1f perform “Wut” at the Pitchfork Villain showcase:

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